I hadn’t quite acquired my “Bard look” in 1999, but nevertheless we interrupted our brace of weekend visits to the Barbican to see large scale concerts with a visit to the local cinema in Ealing to see Shakespeare In Love.
It was one of those films that you had to see at that time because everyone was talking about it.
These days, he says writing 25 years later, we tend to avoid films that everyone is talking about.
Anyway, we enjoyed this one, even the silly bits. We did not imagine we were having a history lesson.
Here’s what IMDB says about it, including trailers and stuff.
No doubt we had a glass or two over a very pleasant meal at home afterwards.
