Sonnets in Leiden

So take a quarter Scottish, Irish, Dutch and German Filmmaker, add a trans-atlantic Brit and a city called Leiden. Follow a suggestion to film some sonnets special-like.

We’d been working the Financiele Dagblad Career Challenge at Nijenrode (2:51-3:10) when the idea first arose.

We then thought, ‘Hey, Sonnet 30 is painted on a wall on the Rapenburg and Houtstraat in Leiden. Let’s start there!’ Filmmaker agreed and here’s the result:

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Then we moved locations to the edge of the old city and one of its old gateways. We like the effect of people rushing by us as we recite. A good metaphor for an actor’s career.

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