Miguel and William

July 2, 2007

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I can't believe the Guardian is giving this kind of space to this film. (That's Will Kemp as Shakespeare above, close to rubbing noses with Elena Anaya.) The article makes Miguel and William sound like serious historical enquiry, but it's less historically enquiring even than Shakespeare in Love, and greatly disappointing (in my 'umble). The concept behind it is terrific, of course - Cervantes and Shakespeare meet up in Spain - and that alone will find it viewers (though not many in Spain), but most of them will leave the cinema feeling short-changed. "Competing theories that Shakespeare spent his time working in schools in Lancashire or Wales, or with a troupe of theatrical players, are based largely on a network of textual references," the article says. The film is largely a network of sexual references. (I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that the first sentence has Elena Anaya giggling "I'm not going to let you pop my cherry".) And the Guardian writer Vanessa Thorpe should know that the producer's name is Antonio Saura, as in "son of Carlos", not Sauro. But hats off to the PR team for getting her to write the article for them, apparently without even seeing the film.

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