Shakespearean adaptations that set the Bard’s plays in a contemporary setting with the classical dialogue, tend to divide moviegoers with respect to how well the approach works (see: reactions to Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet or Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet).
First-time director Ralph Fiennes is bringing one of the famous playwright’s more controversial works, Coriolanus, to life in a similar fashion. Judging by the UK trailer for the film, does the Oscar-nominee look to have done justice to the original stage drama?
The answer is… yes, actually. Fiennes recruited director of photography Barry Ackroyd and camera operator Oliver Driscoll (The Hurt Locker, Green Zone) in order to visually realize Shakespeare’s Coriolanus as a gritty modern-day tale of war. Going off the early footage shown in the international theatrical preview, that trio looks to have transformed the play into a viscerally ...
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