Anonymous (2011) ***

A "DaVinci Code" in iambic pentameter - a tale, told by Roland Emmerich ("Independance Day"), full of sound and fury, signifying that William Shakespeare might have been a fraud. However, the "Stratfordian vs Oxfordian" authorship controversy is almost of a secondary importance here, overshadowed by the sex life of Queen Elizabeth and the political intrigues related to her succession. Like with Dan Brown's story of Mary Magdalen, the fiction is far more fascinating (and intriguing) than the boring reality, making us wish that it was all true, but ultimately, once again, does it really matter ? What difference does it make if "Hamlet" was written by a legitimate son of a glover or an illegitimate son of a queen ?