Hamlet movie8/24/2023 ![]() Like all Zeffirelli pictures, it’s exquisitely designed, by Dante Ferretti, and lushly photographed, by David Watkin. Deprived of Zeffirelli’s usual, high-spirited flourish and flamboyance, his deliciously overdressed sets and rococo clutter, this “Hamlet"-swallowed up in chilly panoramas, dark castles and sonorous verse-reading-sometimes seems cold and spiritless. ![]() As Mel Gibson plays him, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a Gloom-and-Doom Dane, is an Elizabethan Lethal Weapon whipped on by vicious hatred of his licentious stepfather, giggly Claudius (Alan Bates), flayed by ambiguous yearnings for his statuesque blonde mother, ice-queen Gertrude (Glenn Close).įranco Zeffirelli’s new “Hamlet"(AMC Century 14)-his first Shakespearean movie since his triumphantly gaudy 19 versions of “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Romeo and Juliet"-isn’t exactly campy. And whenever he looks at his parents, he becomes an Oedipal wreck. His hair is blond, his chin is stubbled, his eyes are wild.
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