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All Is True

  • 20182018
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 41m
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Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, and Ian McKellen in All Is True (2018)
'All Is True' reveals a dramatic and little known period in the final years of William Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh). Also stars Judi Dench and Ian McKellen.
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A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.
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    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Ben Elton
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    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Judi Dench
    • Ian McKellen
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Ben Elton
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    • Judi Dench
    • Ian McKellen
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    • 59Metascore
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    Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh
    • William Shakespeare
    Judi Dench
    Judi Dench
    • Anne Shakespeare
    Ian McKellen
    Ian McKellen
    • Earl of Southampton
    Nonso Anozie
    Nonso Anozie
    • Actor Playing Aaron
    Lolita Chakrabarti
    Lolita Chakrabarti
    • Stratford Landlady
    Darryl Clark
    • Mr. Wheeler
    Jack Colgrave Hirst
    Jack Colgrave Hirst
    • Tom Quiney
    Doug Colling
    • Douglas, Shakespeare's Servant
    John Dagleish
    John Dagleish
    • Rafe Smith
    Eleanor de Rohan
    Eleanor de Rohan
    • Margaret Wheeler
    Clara Duczmal
    • Elizabeth Hall
    Phil Dunster
    Phil Dunster
    • Henry, the Student
    Freya Durkan
    • Young Judith Shakespeare
    Sam Ellis
    • Hamnet Shakespeare
    Sean Foley
    • John Lane
    Hadley Fraser
    Hadley Fraser
    • John Hall
    Gerard Horan
    Gerard Horan
    • Ben Jonson
    Matt Ayleigh
    Matt Ayleigh
    • Frank
    • (as Matt Jessup)
      • Kenneth Branagh
      • Ben Elton
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    • Trivia
      In one of his scenes with Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh was supposed to directly cite lines from William Shakespeare's work, but he got it slightly wrong, so Dench started to laugh at the mistake. In retort, Branagh quipped "You can probably finish it!", which she promptly did. All of this was obviously not scripted, but nonetheless kept for the finished film.
    • Goofs
      When talking to the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare repeatedly addresses him as "Your Grace". When addressing an Earl, the correct form is "My Lord" (only a duke, archbishop or monarch would be addressed as Your Grace). The real William Shakespeare spent enough time around nobility to be well aware of the correct title to use.
    • Quotes

      William Shakespeare: If you want to be a writer, and speak to others and for others, speak first for yourself. Search within. Consider the contents of your own soul. Your humanity. And if you're honest with yourself, then whatever you write, all is true.

    • Connections
      Featured in OWV Updates: Christmas Eve 2018 Multimedia Update (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Fear No More
      Performed by Abigail Doyle

      Music written by Patrick Doyle

      Words by William Shakespeare

      Published by Patrick Doyle Music Administered by Air-Edel Association L T D

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    All Is True
    This is like watching the Ben Elton sitcom The Upstart Crow and finding out that the cast has been replaced by different actors.

    Written by Ben Elton who this time has cut the jokes. Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as William Shakespeare in his retirement years in Stratford Upon Avon after the Globe theatre burnt down in London.

    It is disconcerting to see Branagh looking like Ben Kingsley in this film. Judi Dench plays his wife Ann Hathaway, although the real Ann was eight years older than her husband. Judi Dench is twenty six years older than Branagh, the age difference is noticeable.

    This is a melancholy and fictionalised film. The autumnal colour palette sees Shakespeare at the end of his life haunted by the death of his son Hamnett many years earlier. He died at the age of eleven during an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

    Shakespeare feels guilty that he was not there when his son died and after all these years he has unanswered questions. Being at home he needs to connect with his estranged wife and also need to deal with his daughters, one is still unmarried, the other has marital issues.

    Despite his fame, Shakespeare suffers from an inferiority complex due to his family's social standing. His father had debts and this is touched upon when Shakespeare has to put up with barbed comments from local landowner and when he receives a visit by the Earl of Southampton (Ian McKellen.)

    I think there was no need for so much prosthetics on Branagh. It was distracting. The story is superficial, it really is meditating on loss, grief and old age. Yet is was heavy going and only livened up when McKellen showed up.

    I liked Elton's The Upstart Crow and this needed the cheeky zippy fun of that series.





    e film imagines Shakespeare coming home to Stratford for good after the fire, yearning for a prosperous and peaceful retirement but now forced to confront long-suppressed feelings about the death of his son 17 years before. He must deal with the angry, conflicted and still unmarried Judith, and her troubled sister Susanna, married to Dr John Hall - and also his stolidly unimpressed wife Anne. Both daughters create social upset for Shakespeare, who despite his fame is yearning for bourgeois respectability in the provinces. But the awful memory of Hamnet keeps coming back. He angrily disputes ownership of grief with Anne and Judith, pointing out that he feels as deeply as they. But Dench brings an acid rebuke to Anne's reply that, at the time of his Hamnet's death, he was writing The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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      • February 8, 2019 (United Kingdom)
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