A Midsummer Night's Dream

A couple of years back, we had a very stylized presentation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with gangsters and guns in it. Here is another such movie that takes certain liberties with the time of the story. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most hilarious plays. The movie, which stars some big names, is fortunately pretty good too. The director has taken the liberty of setting the play in the beginning of the nineteenth century, in Italy. As the narration puts it: necklines are high; parents are rigid; and marriage is seldom a matter of love.

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