| General Film Distributors (GFD) | Release Date: September 29, 1948 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
Laurence Olivier's famous 1948 interpretation of Shakespeare's play suffers slightly from his pop-Freud approach to the character and from some excessively flashy, wrongheaded camera workâincluding the notorious moment when Hamlet begins the soliloquy and the camera begins to track back.
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Despite winning several Oscars, Olivier's (condensed) version of Shakespeare's masterpiece makes for frustrating viewing: for all its 'cinematic' ambitions (the camera prowling pointlessly along the gloomy corridors of Elsinore), it's basically a stagy showcase for the mannered performance of the director in the lead role (though he's ably supported by a number of British theatrical stalwarts).
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