Henry V - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Kenneth Branagh

Starring :

Kenneth Branagh

Derek Jacobi

Brian Blessed

Patrick Doyle

Ian Holm

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Description: D D H H Amazon.com essential video Very few films come close to the brilliance Kenneth Branagh achieved with his first foray into screenwriting and direction. Henry V qualifies as a masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules. Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an antiwar story. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and close-ups of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and willful eyes revealing much about t ... (more)

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: 18 July 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792846154 UPC: 027616850126

Tags: Drama (4), Shakespeare (4), War (3), Historical (3), 1400s (2), Battlefield (2), William Shakespeare (2), Based On Play (2), King (2), Courage (2), Dauphin Of France (2), Medieval (2), Impalement (2), Henry V (2), England (2), France (2), History (2), 100 Years War (1), Shawkespeare (1)

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