when the british make a costume drama it be simply a feast for the sens represent luminous colour in the most beautiful shade of red and gold and brown and costume full of little detail and precious jewelry and a great music score that take you straight to shakespearian and bronte england . now and a new precious jewel of the british cinema come to film theatre and from my first impression it could be the best film of this year ( well and at least until the new harry potter come out ) . the topic be more or less familiar from shakespeare in love represent it be the drama of this time when woman want to act on stage but only men be allow to do so . while shakespeare in love show this drama from a female point of view and stage beauty deal with a man whose life fall to bit and peace when a woman play a woman and achieve a change of law which now allow woman to act on stage . ned kinaston ( billy crudup ) be a stage beauty and mean represent a male actor who be skilled in and specialize on strictly perform female role . he have do so for year and can do it like no other and play nothing else . he be a star and the best stage beauty in london . like every star and ned have someone who care for him and know all his wish on and behind the stage and hold his foot on earth represent it be maria ( claire dane ) and the girl who care for his wig and his make up and his costume . maria do not only love ned and she live for the theatre and dream to be on stage herself . one night she borrow ned costume and wig and make her dream illegally come true on a little stage . she be a full success and so set the wheel in motion represent a duke have see her performance and a duke who have connection to the king and soon the law be change represent woman be allow to act on stage now . kinaston see the end of his career and drowns in despair . but it be maria again who might save him . a fascinating tale about men in dress and woman in tights and the theatre in shakespearean england . but stage beauty be so much more . it be about two people whose heart belong to the theatre and who be so deep into it that reality and fiction be sometimes a dangerous mix . it be about a man and a woman who find their way in a time where this way seem not to exist . it be dramatic and sometimes wonderfully romantic and fragile and very entertaining and simply beautiful . hand down for billy crudup performance represent this beautiful man be not bad a a woman and but basically the film celebrate his male beauty . when he be on stage he incredible and when he off stage he simply hot but also convince when face the great crisis of his life ( in his role i mean ) . but actually the person carry the film be a fantastic claire dane . once again she be play shakespeare and this time not julia but desdemona . she be strong and she be beautiful and she be courageous but also sympathetic . the support cast be what every director and viewer can only dream of represent it include tom wilkinson and rupert everett and hugh bonneville and ben chaplin . if you haven not see this film yet and do so and it a great experience . it enchant and it give your dreams wing and hope and strength . and be great entertainment and too .