Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and her groom-to-be, Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), team up with Claudio’s commanding officer, Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme.

Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson) — a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other.

Meanwhile, meddling Don John (Keanu Reeves) plots to ruin the wedding.

"[Branagh] has found his way to the play's profound yet populist heart, rediscovering Shakespeare's vision of romantic fulfillment - celebration with an underlying tug of sadness - for an era that believes itself all too wise to the ways of love." Entertainment Weekly

Much Ado About Nothing is screening to coincide with the Queen's University symposium, Kenneth Branagh, Renaissance Man? With thanks to BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies) and School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast for supporting and funding this event.