TITLE: Merchant of Venice
YEAR: 2005

MICHAEL RADFORD: Director, Screenwriter

STARRING:
Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins & Zuleikha Robinson Click for more

SYNOPSIS: 
Venice, 1596. Melancholy Antonio loves the youthful Bassanio, so when Bassanio asks... Click for more

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
My intention was always to make a film that would be clear and intelligible to a modern audience. The problem with Shakespeare is that the more you read the text the more you fall in love with it and as actors and directors we forget that the audience only hears it once and can find the Elizabethan language extremely difficult to penetrate.... Click for more

EXTRA FEATURES:
For extra photgraphs and materials on the Merchant of Venice, please click on the link below and it will take you to a website dedicated to this film. Click for more

AWARDS:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 5 nominations
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COMMENTS:
"An exceptional example of Shakespeare on film."
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle

"A lean, stripped-down and unapologetically cinematic take on Shakespeare's work, an adaptation designed at each turn to diminish the mechanics of the comedy and to explore the depths of the pathos."
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)- Rick Groen