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Title: Bad history, flawewd direction
Review: The history in this movie is bad, even allowing immense latitude to a director for what is after all, intended to be entertainment, not schoolwork. However, a director who is so insensitive as to use Elgar's well-known and evocative "Nimrod" from the Enigma variations as a major piece of background music for high Eliabethan drama has no sense of history, no appreciation of music, no ear for appropriateness, no esteem for the audience, and no feeling for the period (Elizabethan England was, after all, rich in music). And that's the problem: a lavish movie can't survive aa director who chooses to be incompetent.
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