I wasn't really expecting much from this film initially. The beginning unfolds at a deliberate speed, maintaining that measured feeling throughout. However, there are moments of intense emotion and surprising discoveries to be found. I feel bad for anyone who gets frustrated by movies with intricate storylines that require attention to detail; they might even fall asleep during a Shakespeare performance ("Why aren't …

**_A strangely formless and insubstantial love-letter to Shakespeare_** > _There is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his_ Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde_, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute_ Iohannes fac totum_, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey._ - Robert Greene; _Greenes Groats-VVorth…