Hamlet as neo-noir thriller. Shot in 1998 and released direct-to-video in 2000 after playing film festivals, this stylish reimagining of Shakespeare's tragedy takes its title from Act 3, Scene 2 ("Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables") — an unfortunate choice, both because it makes the film sound like a horror picture and because it calls attention to an absurd plot point near the end. (An assassin unconvincingly confuses a man in a gray suit with a woman — the delectably unmanly Jacqueline Bisset, no less — in a black suit.) Los Angeleno Jack Lyne (cowriter Jonathan Penner) is still in mourning six weeks after the...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins