film profile]), a determined young woman who has been cast out of the palace: an enclosed space where shadows and intense lighting create images that are simultaneously beautiful and dramatic. Revelling in the sun and the freedom she enjoys in the Forest of Arden, she will do her utmost – in collusion with her loyal friend and cousin Celia (
Elena Furiase), and her foul-mouthed and mischievous buffoon Petra (
Rut Santamaría) – to win the heart of the somewhat scatterbrained Orlando (
Diego Landaluce), who has a tense and violent relationship with his older brother.
And so, once again, here we find all the staples of the most playful and joyful side of Shakespeare’s oeuvre: love games, the passing of time, witty dialogue, transvestism, romantic courtship, the crazy things that people end up doing for the ones they desire, collusion between buddies and sexual misunderstandings. With minimal resources, a wardrobe combining the ancient and the modern, a faint feminist aura an