2015 · shakespeare · period · stylised
Macbeth
Directed by Justin Kurzel1h 53m2015
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Our read: Macbeth (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive shakespeare · period · stylised entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme shakespeare / period, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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