"When it comes to Shakespeare movies, you know you’re in good hands with Kenneth Branagh. In All Is True, the British actor and director does double duty in front of and behind the camera, speculating about the Bard’s bittersweet final years. This handsome film is wondefully acted and clearly made with no shortage of compassion and love.
"Written by Ben Elton, who acted alongside Branagh in 1993’s screen adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, the film begins in 1613, shortly after the playwright’s beloved Globe Theatre burned to the ground. Afterward, he’d never write another play again. It’s as if something inside of him was snuffed out along with the Globe. Instead, Shakespeare returned to his family home in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he lived out his retirement alongside his estranged wife (a winningly crabby Judi Dench) and his two daughters. A son named Hamnet, who died years earlier at age 11, is an additional presence – mostly as a source of Shakespeare’s ghostly, late-life regrets as an absentee father. He’s a stranger in his own home, mourning a son he never truly knew.
"Branagh putters around in the garden and receives admiring visitors, such an Ian McKellen’s rascally Earl of Southampton. Meanwhile, greedy ulterior motives, infidelity scandals, and years of repressed family secrets keep spilling out, robbing Shakespeare of the peace he seems to yearn for. Branagh’s easy-on-the-eyes (and the ears) drama offers enough detail-rich pleasures to make it worth checking out." - Entertainment Weekly
About Cine Babies:
Every Wednesday, 1:00pm at the Twin. Cine Babies is presented by the Princess in partnership with Balancing from Birth to Baby
Cine Babies is a movie program for new parents (and their friends and family) to attend with their infants. Films will be presented with a lowered volume to protect sensitive infant ears, as well as dimmed lights and convenient amenities like change tables and bottle warmers.
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