A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Michael Hoffman

Escritores (WGA):

William Shakespeare (based on the play by)
Michael Hoffman (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

14 mayo 1999 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Fantasía | Romance

Frase comercial:

Hold on to Your Heart. Cupid is Armed and Dangerous.

Plot:

Lovers lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.

Plot Keywords:

Love | Lover | Fairy | Obsession | Mischievousness

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Excellent Job of a Difficult Task

Reparto

Kevin Kline	...	Nick Bottom
Michelle Pfeiffer	...	Titania
Rupert Everett	...	Oberon
Stanley Tucci	...	Puck
Calista Flockhart	...	Helena
Anna Friel	...	Hermia
Christian Bale	...	Demetrius
Dominic West	...	Lysander
David Strathairn	...	Theseus
Sophie Marceau	...	Hippolyta
Roger Rees	...	Peter Quince
Max Wright	...	Robin Starveling
Gregory Jbara	...	Snug
Bill Irwin	...	Tom Snout
Sam Rockwell	...	Francis Flute

También conocida como:

Sogno di una notte di mezza estate (Italy)
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA) (complete title)
El sueño de una noche de verano, de William Shakespeare (Spain) [es]
Sueño de una noche de verano (Argentina) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content.

Duración:

116 min

País:

Italy | UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Italiano

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Canadian Home Video rating) | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 (bw) | Ireland:PG | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:PG | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 (Approved No. 36060)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

Compañía:

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Trivialidades:

Take a look at what some of the other performers are rehearsing while the Mechanicals are waiting for word from the Duke. One group of players is rehearsing the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex and another pair of players are rehearsing a scene from Shakespeare's play Othello.

Errores:

Continuidad: The medal and the red ribbon that Bottom is wearing when he leaves the theatre are different from those he's wearing when he arrives at home.

Citas:

Theseus: Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief? That is hot ice and wonderous strange snow.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Game K N B: (2006-11-29)" (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

Intermezzo

Excellent Job of a Difficult Task

I'm a professional live theatre stagehand. People who are too centered on movies will have a hard time with this picture. If you could see the original first run performance of this play in Elizabethan England you would think you had stumbled into an over-costumed poetry reading. If the movie is hard to follow try & imagine what viewing that play would be like. It is the measure of Shakespeare's greatness that now 400 years later & in a medium born of photography that this greatest of fantasies still rings true. Try to show some respect; Shakespeare defined modern English. In comparing the lines to the original I thought that the adaptation was sensitive & well thought out. Simplified to fit the film medium but not sacrificing any of the truly great lines that actors drool over. The fairy world sets seemed cramped to me & reminded me of Cocteau's Beauty & the Beast. I personally found the setting of the movie in turn of century Italy kind of fun. Resetting Shakespeare in times & places other than he wrote is pretty much standard practice. The bicycles & the phonographs were amusing to me & generated some fun business for the actors. Kevin Kline was excellent as the ass. He got you to sympathize not pity or deride. In fact the whole amateur troop was memorable. Stanley Tucci was the quintessential Puck. Calista Flockhart threw everything including the kitchen sink into her part. Don't accuse her of overacting though; you'll only give away that you have never been deeply in love. Michelle Pfeiffer was radioactive beautiful, probably fatal closer than ten feet. Rupert Everett maintained perfect believability in a difficult part which is essentially support for Puck. As an answer to anyone who thought that things were a bit oversexed. The Renaissance was all about the rediscovery of the fact that people are noble & beautiful, not sinful & ugly. Shakespeare was one of the greatest products of the Renaissance. The movie is true to those Renaissance ideals. To sum up; a class act & class acts are not for everybody.