1. Ophelia (2018) Film Review: A Feminist Twist on Shakespeare's ...
23 sep 2023 · The film, based on Lisa Klein's novel of the same name, retains some of the core elements from Shakespeare's version, including murder, an ...
Film: Ophelia Year: 2019 Genre: Drama/Romance Rating: M Director: Claire McCarthy
2. Ophelia movie review & film summary (2019) | Roger Ebert
28 jun 2019 · Ophelia is a tragic figure in a tragic play. First loved, then spurned by Hamlet, she goes mad and drowns in the river.
Just as that play catches the conscience of the king, the richness of Shakespeare’s original provides the basis for a vividly imagined adjunct that provides additional insight into the classic and to our own ability to use art to illuminate the modern world.
3. Review: 'Ophelia' is an Exercise in Feminist Revisionism
25 jul 2019 · Though the narrative is true to Shakespeare's original, director Claire McCarthy shifts the film's perspective to Ophelia's and in doing so ...
Hamlet, perhaps the most well-known play of all time, has been reinvented for countless performances. Everyone with a high school education knows the tragic story of the Prince of Denmark. However, Ophelia suggests, the world does not know her story after all. Played by the ever talente
4. Reviving Ophelia: Inside the New Film That Gives Voice to Hamlet's Tragic ...
2 jul 2019 · Based on Lisa Klein's 2006 Y.A. novel, Ophelia shifts the spotlight from Hamlet to his love interest; to Hamlet's mother, Gertrude; and to ...
A spoiler-filled conversation with director Claire McCarthy and screenwriter Semi Chellas.
5. Ophelia review – Daisy Ridley stranded in disastrous Hamlet ...
23 jan 2018 · Daisy Ridley's voiceover introduces us to Ophelia, floating in her watery grave, suggesting that only now will we hear “the real story”. We ...
A shift in point of view reframes Shakespeare’s tragedy but the novelty wears off instantaneously with bizarre additions and a lack of emotional engagement
6. film director Claire McCarthy on 'Ophelia' - The Arts Desk |
19 nov 2019 · Upcoming adaptation shines a new light on Shakespeare's famous tragic maiden. Film interview by Owen Richards.
Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most enduring characters in both literature and art, and yet her part in Hamlet is limited to few lines and fewer motivations. Based on Lisa Klein's novel, the new film Ophelia challenges this interpretation. Daisy Ridley stars as the iconic maiden raising above the petty squabbles of flawed men.
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7. Shakespeare's Women Run the Story in Ophelia (2018) - Frock Flicks
19 nov 2020 · It's a loose retelling of Hamlet, which was a loose retelling of a Scandinavian legend that probably had very little historical truth to begin ...
When it first came out, Ophelia (2018) was called a feminist take on Hamlet. That’s not a bad read of the movie because it does re-tell Shakespeare’s play from the point of view of its …
8. 'Ophelia' Sees The World Differently Than Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet
28 jun 2019 · So we flashback to way before Shakespeare even thought about Ophelia, a whole new backstory about her as a little girl chasing after her brother ...
Claire McCarthy's new film Ophelia takes the Bard's advice to "hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," and finds a fresh angle on the story Shakespeare called Hamlet.
9. Ophelia (2019) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
30 jun 2019 · The film builds into a Shakespearean Revenge of the Sith, depicting Hamlet's meet-cute with Ophelia, his growing rivalry with his uncle, and his rage when he ...
**/****starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, George MacKay, Clive Owenwritten by Semi Chellas, based on the novel by Lisa Kleindirected by Claire McCarthy by Alice Stoehr A century ago, English animator Anson Dyer adapted Hamlet into a one-reel satirical cartoon. A couple of years later, Danish actress Asta Nielsen played her melancholy countryman, recontextualizing him as a woman. Since then, filmmakers have transposed the Bard's source material into the beer industry, the animal kingdom, and (on several occasions) the corporate boardroom. Film history, in other words, is full of revisionist precedent for Ophelia, which begins with its title character floating in…
10. Review: Ophelia - In Their Own League
27 nov 2019 · Despite being one of Shakespeare's most notable heroines, Ophelia has unfortunately been lost in the heavily male-driven narrative of “Hamlet”.
Despite being one of Shakespeare’s most notable heroines, Ophelia has unfortunately been lost in the heavily male-driven narrative of “Hamlet”. However, Claire McCarthy’s …
11. Ophelia | The New Yorker
22 jul 2019 · The dialogue is in prose, boiled down from Shakespearean verse, and the drama is no longer a tragedy but a fairy tale—almost, at times, a farce.
The director Claire McCarthy is hardly the first person to approach the story of “Hamlet” from an unfamiliar angle. (Tom Stoppard, John Updike, and Ian McEwan are just some of those who have made the attempt.) But McCarthy’s 2018 film, adapted by Semi Chellas from a novel by Lisa Klein that tells the story from Ophelia's perspective, is unusual in devising a whole new set of circumstances with which to thicken the play’s plot. Daisy Ridley plays the title character, who is raised at Elsinore and taken on as a lady-in-waiting by Gertrude (Naomi Watts), before falling for Prince Hamlet (George MacKay), who looks thoroughly tragic, or at least a bit miserable, from the start. The dialogue is in prose, boiled down from Shakespearean verse, and the drama is no longer a tragedy but a fairy tale—almost, at times, a farce. Naomi Watts has a second role, as a woodland witch in charge of all the potions; Clive Owen, as Claudius, steals both the crown and the show.(Streaming on Netflix.)
12. Naomi Watts: reimagining Shakespeare in Ophelia
4 jul 2019 · Watts says it was a “bold idea” that came from Lisa Klein's 2006 novel, which Ophelia is based on. “It was adapted by Semi Chellas and directed ...
The actor discusses Australian director Claire McCarthy’s feminist approach to Hamlet that’s been a decade in the making.
13. Film Review: "Ophelia" is Revisionist, Romantic, Ravishing - The Arts Fuse
30 jun 2019 · This revisionist version of Hamlet, conjured by a trio of three women, comes on as a feminist juggernaut, steeping Shakespeare's classic in gorgeous romance.
Ophelia is moving, intoxicating, haunting: the most visually pleasurable film I’ve seen so far this year.
14. REVIEW: “Ophelia” is a Clever Reimagining of Shakespeare ...
20 dec 2019 · A lush re-imagining of Hamlet directed by Claire McCarthy that delves further into the character of Ophelia and her role in the story.
★★★★★ “McCarthy takes the liberty of expanding onto the story in order to bring it into the 21st century and give it a much needed female perspective.” There’s a certain kind of magic t…
15. Ophelia | Cinema St Louis
12 jul 2019 · Claire McCarthy's Ophelia is the latest in a long line of cinematic Shakespeare adaptations that take the Bard's words and add a supposedly creative twist.
Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia is the latest in a long line of cinematic Shakespeare adaptations that take the Bard’s words and add a supposedly creative twist. What sets the director’s revisionist take on Hamlet apart from all the others is its hectoring insistence on being different. The film’s opening image finds Daisy Ridley submerged in water, clutching a bouquet of flowers. Her Ophelia is not like any iteration of the character seen before (unless, of course, the viewer has read the 2008 novel by Lisa Klein on which the film is based).
16. Ophelia (2019) - Mark Reviews Movies
28 jun 2019 · The basic concept is a re-telling of Hamlet from the perspective of Ophelia, the constantly manipulated and much-abused love interest of the ...
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17. Ophelia Movie Review | Common Sense Media
19 jul 2024 · Ophelia is a revisionist take on Hamlet's love interest -- presenting her as much more independent and wise-minded than she appears in Shakespeare's classic ...
Hamlet gets a feminist update, but violence stays the same. Read Common Sense Media's Ophelia review, age rating, and parents guide.
18. MOVIE OF THE WEEK June 28, 2019: Claire McCarthy's OPHELIA
30 jun 2019 · Director Clare McCarthy's new film Ophelia, from the screenplay by Semi Chellas, is based on author Lisa Klein's novel that reimagines Ophelia's ...
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19. The Story of Ophelia | Tate
Ophelia is one of the most popular Pre-Raphaelite works in the Tate collection. The painting was part of the original Henry Tate Gift in 1894.
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20. Ophelia (Film) - TV Tropes
It is a reimagining of William Shakespeare's Hamlet told from the perspective of Ophelia, Prince Hamlet's ill-fated love interest. In medieval Denmark, young ...
A 2018note it premiered in 2018, but didn't receive a wider release until 2019 British-American romantic period drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Lisa Klein. It is a reimagining of William Shakespeare's Hamlet told from …
21. IFC FILMS TAKES “OPHELIA,” A COMPLEX, SUBVERSIVE ...
9 feb 2019 · Ophelia must decide between her true love and her own life. OPHELIA was produced by Daniel Bobker (THE BROTHERS GRIMM, DREAM HOUSE), Ehren ...
NEW YORK, NY (FEBRUARY 9, 2019) – IFC Films announced today that it is acquiring U.S. rights to OPHELIA, the dynamic re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, featuring Daisy Ridley (STAR WARS trilogy) in the title role. Directed by Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy (THE WAITING CITY) and adapted for the screen by Semi Chellas (MAD MEN) from…
22. IFC Film's “Ophelia” reimagines Shakespeare's “Hamlet” and, in ...
24 jun 2019 · Even if Ophelia is a creation of Lisa Klein, taken for nothing more than fan-fiction, it is still an incredibly moving, emotionally evocative ...
There exists a problem in classic literature and it resides in the presentation of women. They are rarely given any agency, any sense of control over their fates, and are, instead, merely fodder fo…
23. Review: 'Ophelia' Treads Water - NPR
27 jun 2019 · Based on a YA novel told from Ophelia's perspective, Claire McCarthy's film is by turns too glib and too reverent with the source material, ...
Based on a YA novel told from Ophelia's perspective, Claire McCarthy's film is by turns too glib and too reverent with the source material, hopelessly blurring its point of view.
