In fact it appears that she may stand him up altogether, the woman's eternal prerogative. He's waiting for that damned muse to liberate him.
He does what all writers do in such a fix: He writes his byline 600 times. They sit somewhere in his cranium, glued together with a sticky yolk of self-loathing, despair and the sloth that dare not speak its name.
Anybody who throws words at paper or screen will recognize the phenomenon: the clottage is general, like the snow falling on Ireland in the beginning of Joyce's "The Dead." No stinking words come. Shakespeare is blocked is what Shakespeare is. He's still white, but that can't be helped, and he's still male, which is the thrust of the picture, if you know what I mean, and I'll bet you do.īut when the film opens, Shakespeare (the soulful Joseph Fiennes) isn't in love at all. Where to see, that is the question.Ī witty, romantic, even bawdy romp through the life of the Deadest, Whitest Male of them all, this film catches up with him before he was dead by about 30 years. With "Shakespeare in Love," to see or not to see isn't the question. Picture Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow) Supporting Actress (Judi Dench) Original Screenplay Art Direction Score Costume Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow take a twirl in "Shakespeare in Love." 'Shakespeare in Love': Get Thee to A Multiplex
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