Hamlet
Screening on Film
Directed by Michael Almereyda.
With Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Bill Murray.
US, 2000, 35mm, color, 111 min.
With Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Bill Murray.
US, 2000, 35mm, color, 111 min.
Director Michael Almereyda resituates Shakespeare’s most famous play amidst the corporate, high-tech, digitalized world of contemporary Manhattan. The Bard’s original text is intact and delivered with emotional conviction in psychologically rich performances by an impressive cast. But the classic story of family conflict, thwarted love, and confrontation with death is opened out to embrace spectacular images and rhythms of modern metropolitan life, which come to seem a natural home to this archetypal tale.