ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Classic play brought back to life

Tom Stoppard’s only film as a director, based on his Tony award-winning stage comedy drama. The tale follows two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the king of Denmark. Along the way they encounter a band of players, are asked to find out what is troubling the prince Hamlet and ponder the meaning of their own existence. Gary

Oldman and Tim Roth excel as the eponymous duo, while the star-studded supporting cast features Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Ian Richardson, Joanna Miles and Donald Sumpter. Acorn TV, from Monday