Sight and Sound
"...Handsomely shot, full of intriguing ideas..." 11/01/1996 p.59-60Entertainment Weekly
"...[Bonham Carter is] gorgeous, ethereal, and flying high....An epic, all right, but of the heart..." 11/15/1996 p.49 Variety
"...A handsome, agreeably performed rendition..." 09/16/1996 Chicago Sun-Times
"...One of the best of the many splendid recent films based on Shakespeare..." 10/15/1996 p.28 San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
Something has happened to either Helena Bonham Carter or to me. Either I've suddenly opened my eyes to how wonderful she has always been, or she's gradually become an enchanting actress. One way or another, she shines in Twelfth Night in the charming role of Olivia, the woman who falls in love with a young man who is really a young woman disguised in male clothing... Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George) is a deliciously silly Malvolio... And as Viola, Stubbs ( Sense and Sensibility) brings a gallantry and devilishness appropriate to a girl wearing a mustache and military uniform. She has the intelligence and cockiness of a young Helen Mirren... - Barbara Shulgasser
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
Trevor Nunn's new film version of `Twelfth Night, a lighthearted comedy of romance and gender confusion, creates a romantic triangle out of the same sorts of mistaken sexual identities that inspired Some Like It Hot. And Nunn directs it in something of the same spirit; the film winks at us while the characters fall in love... Nunn's casting choices make for real chemistry between Imogen Stubbs and Helena Bonham Carter... Bonham Carter, who has grown wonderfully as an actress, walks the thin line between love and comedy as she sighs for the fair youth who has come on behalf of the count. She wisely plays the role sincerely, leaving the winks to the other characters. - Roger Ebert
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