2018 · drama · history · music
All Is True
Directed by Kenneth Branagh1h 41m2018
London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.
Our read: All Is True (2018) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · history · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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