Our June pick is: All is True, directed by Kenneth Branaugh, who also stars as William Shakespeare during the last three years of his life; Judi Dench as his long-suffering wife, Anne Hathaway; and Ian McLellan as the as Anne Hathaway. Ian McKellen as the pivotal Earl of Southampton.
This elegiac film is another of actor/director Branaugh's forays into the Shakespearean canon. They include: Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love’s Labours Lost, Othello and As You Like It.
SYNOPSIS: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I5cKmiONDI
REVIEW: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/21/all-is-true-review-ben-elton-kenneth-branagh-shakespeare
