Sea Sorrow

Sea Sorrow gives us symbols, speeches and a sense of shame that, in more skillful hands, might have actually been effective.

Can poetry cast tragedy in a new light? With Sea Sorrow, Vanessa Redgrave is hoping it can.

Vanessa Redgrave proudly displays a poster made by her youngest grand-daughter, reading "For Every Child Protection". Perhaps the whole film should have been kept in the family too.

Fiennes reading Shakespeare is always a treat, and to have such weighty context only emphasises the power of those words and of that performer.