All is True
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Ben Elton
Produced by Ted Gagliano, Tamar Thomas, Louise Killin
Press
It’s a pleasure to see our greatest Shakespearean actress playing the Bard’s wife, and indeed, All Is True contains many pleasures, not least of which is Zac Nicholson’s cinematography. He pounces like another 17th-century genius, Rembrandt, on the lighting opportunities afforded by all those candles, all those sunbeams streaming through mullioned windows. And outdoors, the panorama shots are ravishing. Warwickshire never looked prettier. - Brian Viner, Daily Mail
James Merifield’s design and Zac Nicholson’s photography, steeped in candlelit chiaroscuro, eschew obvious Merrie England touches for a distinctive feel more redolent of the Dutch Golden Age. Together with acute visual use of the passing seasons, all this finds Branagh getting as close to art-cinema lyricism as he has since 1995’s In the Bleak Midwinter, to similarly melancholic effect. - Screen Daily
When it came to recreating this quieter, slower-paced world that Shakespeare inhabited in his last years, Branagh turned to some of British film's most seasoned technicians and craftsmen, including Zac Nicholson, the BAFTA-winning director of photography, who gives the film its lush, quietly bucolic look - Telegraph
