恋の骨折り損
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かつてロイヤル・シェイクスピア・カンパニーに参加し、映画監督デビューを飾った「ヘンリー五世」など、当時まで数々のシェイクスピア劇の映画化に取り組んできたブラナーが、恋の魔力に取り付かれた男女８人の恋のもつれを描写したシェイクスピアの名作恋愛喜劇をミュージカル仕立てで軽妙に映画化。物語は原作に沿う一方で、BGMにブロードウェイやハリウッドのミュージカルを彩ったおなじみの名曲の数々を用い、観客を楽しませる。出演はブラナー自身、「クルーレス」のA・シルヴァーストーン、「ソラリス」のN・マケルホーンら、当時の米英で活躍した俳優陣。 ナヴァール王国の若き国王は、学業に専念すべく、親友のビローン、ロンガヴィル、デュメーンとともに3年間、女性と会わないなど3つの誓いを立てる。そんな折、フランスの王女が父である王の代理としてある交渉に臨むべく、ロザライン、マライア、キャサリンという魅力的な女性3人を連れてナヴァールへ。たちまち彼女たちに魅了された男性陣はなんとか誓いを破らないよう、抵抗を試みるものの、次第に恋の魔力に屈していき……。
製作費: $13,000,000 (20億円)
興行収入: $300,000 (0億円)
純利益: $-12,700,000 (-19億円)
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By the year 2000, Kenneth Branagh had an admirable film career. Especially noteworthy are the 3 films that he adapted from Shakespeare plays. After his most ambitious, **HAMLET**, he focused on more acting roles and didn't step behind the camera until he produced **LOVES LABOUR'S LOST**. It pains me to say that the resulting film is audacious and sometimes mind-numbingly awkward. This review will personally serve me as I try to understand this effort. This was the first film top be created under the new _SHAKESPEARE FILM COMPANY_. It is likely obscure to most viewers as it survived only through two films, **LOVES LABOURS LOST** and the markedly better **AS YOU LIKE IT**. My guess is that the new film company was going to tackle more frequent Shakespeare stories that were already less popular and not as epic as **HAMLET** or **HENRY V**. And many of those lesser known stories contain stuff that just doesn't translate well to modern audiences. Maybe this new company can approach the stories with a more experimental approach? **LOVES LABOUR'S LOST** is certainly experimental and the results are scattered. Most obviously, Branagh took a 3 and a half hour play and trimmed it to an hour and a half, of which half an hour of it was pre-existing song standards. It seems the objective was to call to mind the musicals of the golden age of Hollywood. But the casting didn't require singing and dancing, so it often feels like we are being duped. What remains of the stage play makes for some excellent fun. Branagh knew what to leave in and what to excise. Nathan Lane and Adrian Lester join some of Branagh's frequent film collaborators. They are right there, bringing some professionality to the beautiful but otherwise sufficient casting. But the young Alicia Silverstone really shows her socks while trying to carry the important role of the visiting queen. Some of the musical numbers work to a point, some make you long for the films they emulate, and a couple are downright creepy - like the erotic _FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE_. It tries to capture the sexy party environment of **MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING**, but fails. I maintain that much of the story struggles come straight from Will Shakespeare himself... The largest example - the happy ending interrupted by news that the queens father has died so she has to postpone all of their new relationships for one year of mourning. It seems a strange conceit, and Branagh tries to address it by have all 4 of his male stars go off to war, and they can all be reunited when the war has ended. In my opinion this was just as weird a solution. I remain an ardent Branagh film, but to date, this is his least re-watchable film.
