Coriolanus
Dir. Ralph Fiennes
Country: UK
Aus Rating: MA15+
Running Time: 122mins
William Shakespeare adaptations will, I suspect, be with us until the last dying gasp of filmmaking. It’s not hard to see why, what with there being seemingly infinite ways to tweak his work so as to appear unique: modern setting with classic dialogue (
Macbeth, 2006); modern setting with updated dialogue (
Hamlet, 2000); period setting with classic dialogue (
Much Ado About Nothing, 1993); international versions (
Ran, 1985); plucky teen versions (
10 Things I Hate About You, 1999), dramatic teen version (
O, 2001); epics (
Hamlet, 1996); arthouse (
My Own Private Idaho, 1991); animated (
The Lion King, 1994); gay (
Were the World Mine, 2008); musical (
West Side Story, 1955); weird anachronistic amalgamations of all (
Titus, 1999)... the list goes on!
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