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January 24, 2012
Shock-and-awe Shakespeare
Ralph Fiennes irritates me but, as a fan of Anthony Hopkins as Titus Andronicus and Ian McKellen as Richard III, Coriolanus looks promising (hat tip to Paul).
Working from a highly inventive screenplay by Gladiator writer John Logan that recasts ancient Rome as a Balkanised warzone, debut director Ralph Fiennes mounts a muscular modern-dress version of a notoriously difficult play. Pretty poetry is in short supply but, with a hail of bullets and a pile of bodies, this is shock-and-awe Shakespeare.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 24, 2012 08:47 AM