Shakespeare Less Loved
You don’t have to know “Love’s Labour’s Lost” well (who does?) to sense something is missing. Branagh keeps the scaffolding only: the King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola) and his three best friends (Branagh, Adrian Lester and Matthew Lillard) take a public oath to devote themselves to study for three years, forswearing women and more than three hours’ sleep a night. Their asceticism is put to the test with the arrival of the Princess of France (Alicia Silverstone) with three alluring maidens in tow (Natascha McElhone, Emily Mortimer and Carmen Ejogo)....