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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 fantasy romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the 1600 play of the same name by William Shakespeare. The ensemble cast features Kevin Kline as Bottom, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett as Titania and Oberon, Stanley Tucci as Puck, and Calista Flockhart , Anna Friel , Christian Bale , and Dominic West as the four ...
Michael Hoffman's 1999 film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream transports the drama's action from ancient Athens to an imaginary Italian village named Monte Athena at the turn of the nineteenth century. In this rendition of the play, Duke Theseus isn't a conquering hero but a tired and seemingly ineffectual bureaucrat.
May 14, 1999 · Roger Ebert. May 14, 1999. 5 min read. Reason and love keep little company together nowadays. So says Bottom in “William Shakespeare’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and he could be describing the play he occupies. It is an enchanted folly suggesting that romance is a matter of chance, since love is blind; at the right moment we are likely ...
Apr 21, 2024 · A strangely uneven adaptation of the Bard's most famous comedy, Michael Hoffman's Dream is, if nothing else, admirable for its lack of a contrived gimmick. Yes, the story has been transplanted to Tuscany in the 1890s, and the cast is packed with big names, but Hoffman rightly treats the text as the real star of the show.
Dec 10, 2013 · In conclusion, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream serves as the perfect starting point for Hoffman’s take on human beings’ journey of experiencing love. By using the comedic elements beautifully crafted by the Bard, and intertwining them with the advancements of technology, Hoffman creates an environment which is not only visually stunning, but also keeps alive the stories of ...
May 6, 2015 · Seeing as I am in a blogging mood recently, feeling far more complacent about having done one single exam than I should (I do have three more to go after all, but it really doesn’t feel like that at the moment), I have decided to write an impromptu review of Michael Hoffman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which I watched yesterday evening ...
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Michael Hoffman modernizes Shakespeare's Athens-set A Midsummer Night's Dream to the early 19th-century village of Monte Athena, Italy, crowding an already complex multi-character play with some daunting Victorian social rigidity - captions explain that "neck lines are high, parents are rigid, marriage is seldom a matter of love" - as well as an eccentric fixation on "the meteoric rise of that ...
