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Title: beautiful rendering
Review: One cannot stop comparing this Hamlet against Olivier's. This one is more beautiful, Zefirelli's color, texture, garments and decorations, epoch recreation, are superb. However, I take issue with the excessive dramatism. Subdued shadows of danish mist are replaced here by italian exhuberance. Olivier's hesitant progress towards doom is replaced here by well intended overacting - nicely done, of course, we have great actors in this movie, but overacting nevertheless. Zefirelli did a nice job on The taming of the shrew and Romeo and Juliet, but Hamlet requires, I believe, a more nordic introspection. Too bad Bergman never did attempt to film it.
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