Film: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Fri., June 20, 2008
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1999, U.S., directed by Michael Hoffman, 115 min.) Refreshments are served at 7:30 p.m., the film begins at 8 p.m. Donations are appreciated. The series is hosted by the United Nations Association of Davis. This version of Shakespeare’s play is set in Tuscany in the late 1800s, after the invention of the bicycle (an important prop).
Anyone wishing to follow the plot closely is advised to read the
play beforehand – otherwise just be entertained by Kevin Kline as
Bottom, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, Rupert Everett as Oberon, Stanley
Tucci as Puck, Calista Flockhart as Helena, Anna Friel as Hermia,
Christian Bale as Demetrius, Dominic West as Lysander, David Strathairn
as Theseus and Sophie Marceau as Hippolyta. "What fools these
mortals be."
