Love's Labour's Lost [DVD]Amazon. com Having taken Shakespeare at his word on Hamlet (i. e., not cutting a single syllable out of a very long play), Kenneth Branagh selects a more radical approach with Love's Labour's Lost. Here the prolific director star weeds out much of the play's dialogue and adds songs and dances of a decidedly modern bent. The King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola, Nicolas Cage's wacko brother in Face Off) and his three comrades (Branagh, Matthew Lillard,