![]() ![]() It sets its stall out in a Sunset Boulevard style as a dead Ophelia, lying in a river surrounded by petals, intones in voiceover, “It is high time I shall tell you my story myself.” We pick up her story six years before Shakespeare. It’s a fun, diverting take, but lacks the depths and courage of its convictions to really invigorate the nifty premise. Based on Lisa Klein’s 2006 YA novel, it takes the events of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and filters them through the eyes of Ophelia ( Ridley). ![]() Bowing at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018, Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia is a better film than the long time delay suggests.
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