HAMLET (TONY RICHARDSON) (1969)

Cast

Plot

Filmed entirely in the Round House, where he had previously staged the play, Richardson concentrates almost exclusively on faces! Faces lower obsessively from the screen, surrounded by mysterious pools of darkness in which figures stealthily appear and disappear. The reason may be economy, but the result is an emphasis on the words and their meaning. Nicol Williamson's Hamlet intelligent, mocking and volcanically explosive, is neatly disciplined by this approach, it's interesting and imaginative.