All Is True

Oh it was a bit of a chilly day today, but sunny which made having a day out feel special.  I decided to head off to the cinema to catch the lunchtime  showing of All is True.  William Shakespear  heads home to his wife and children after the Globe theatre is burnt down.  After spending little time at home, his relationships are strained and he seeks to find some solitude building a garden dedicated to his late young son.

I loved so many things about this morning, the clothes were just devine with wigs, hats, tights and dresses galore although nothing too fancy and dandy, I love seeing a good corset and a man in knickerbockers.  The homes and shops seemed perfect full of red bricks and roughness and one can imagine how bad it all smelled.  Simple furnishings and decors seemed like they were appropriate for the period.  Some things did niggle though.  I was unsure if one would see large piles of oranges in a bowl, I am sure they would have been a treat as they would not grow so well in England.  Apples, pears or plums would have been more in abundance.  Also the token ethnicity of some people in the village, when I am sure that 1613 rural England would not have had many Asian or African faces.  London maybe, but not where the family lived.

Kenneth Branagh was awesome in his strange Shakespear wig,  and I love a movie with Judi Dench, although she is a bit old for the role of his wife Anne Hathaway who in real life was only 8 years older than him, not 30.  She was too old to have such young children and it felt like such a stretch to believe her.  She would have been more appropriate as his mother, rather than wife. 

Anyway it was a delightful movie, I was charmed by thinking of how their private life may have been like, and would love to travel back in time for a week to have seen their lives together (minus the plague and lack of proper bathrooms).  4/5