2011 · drama · history · thriller
Anonymous
Directed by Roland Emmerich2h 10m2011
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Our read: Anonymous (2011) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · history · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
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