Join us in the Dunaway Community Room to view highly acclaimed films. This Library Cinema movie is free to all. Doors open at 2:00pm, movie starts at 2:30pm.
In the only unabridged film version of the classic play, here updated to the 19th century, Prince Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) is traumatized by the revelation that his father was murdered by the present king, Claudius (Derek Jacobi), with the aid of Hamlet's mother, Gertrude (Julie Christie). Hamlet considers a plot for revenge and mistakenly kills Polonius (Richard Briers), the father of his love, Ophelia (Kate Winslet), causing a chain reaction that leads to a climactic and tragic ending.
Kenneth Branagh's sprawling, finely textured adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece lives up to its source material, using strong performances and a sharp cinematic focus to create a powerfully resonant film that wastes none of its 246 minutes.
PG-13 (1996) Ends at 6:30pm
This film is in partnership with the Community Read and Aspen Words.
Monique Rodriguez, monique.rodriguez@pitkincounty.com