This sumptuous and stunning film is testimony to the universality of Shakespeare's stories and why he's a major force. As this film proves, you can set any of his stories in any time or culture and it would make perfect sense, in this case Hamlet set in ancient Tibet. However the director Sherwood Hu doesn't just adapts Hamlet but makes the appropriate changes to make it his own that brings freshness and vitality to a familiar story that makes the prince of Himalayas more real than the prince of Denmark. Everything is first rate in this production, particularly the cinematography. YRCinema's coverage of AFI Fest 2007.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Prince of the Himalayas
This sumptuous and stunning film is testimony to the universality of Shakespeare's stories and why he's a major force. As this film proves, you can set any of his stories in any time or culture and it would make perfect sense, in this case Hamlet set in ancient Tibet. However the director Sherwood Hu doesn't just adapts Hamlet but makes the appropriate changes to make it his own that brings freshness and vitality to a familiar story that makes the prince of Himalayas more real than the prince of Denmark. Everything is first rate in this production, particularly the cinematography. YRCinema's coverage of AFI Fest 2007.
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