comedy of errors directed
by : Kenneth Branagh featuring
: Brian Blessed - Romola Garai - Bryce Dallas Howard - Kevin Kline - Adrian
Lester running
time : 2 hours 15 minutes
Director Kenneth Branagh
tackles the works of William Shakespeare for the fifth time in his career
as a filmmaker with this adaptation of one of The Bard's most accessible
works. Rosalind is the daughter of a banished duke, and lives among a community
of Westerners living in 19th Century Japan. When her father, the Duke,
is suddenly banished, the frightened girl is forced to flee for the Forest
of Arden lest she risk being executed by her malevolent uncle. Joining
Rosalind on her flight to the forest is her sympathetic cousin Celia, who
helps to pass her incognito kin off as a man in order to avoid detection.
Later, Rosalind's clever ruse begins to serve a duel purpose when she determines
to use the disguise to gauge the devotion of her Orlando, yet another exile,
while making her way to the Forest of Arden.
