Coriolanus (2011)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbitt
Synopsis:
Rome's champion in the war against their neighbour, the Volscians, is nominated for the consulship, but when popular feeling hostile to his perceived arrogance is whipped up by the tribunes of the people he is driven from the city. Revenge moves him to join forces with his mortal enemy against his motherland.
Review:
Shakespeare's play about the tension between sincerity and politics, pride and compassion, is given an invigorating contemporary spin by its being set in a kind of wartorn Balkan landscape, despite still nominally being set in Rome. The story now has resonances in the more modern demagoguery of militarist leaders in the Mediterranean theatre, not that Coriolanus ever shows much gift for mob rule; instead his is the tragedy of the man who, like Alceste, could not speak with painted words but his end is the same: a bloodied corpse thrown into the back of a truck. The best Shakespeare adaptation since Richard III, and cleverly poised between a digital newsreel aesthetic and a more formalistic approach.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbitt
Synopsis:
Rome's champion in the war against their neighbour, the Volscians, is nominated for the consulship, but when popular feeling hostile to his perceived arrogance is whipped up by the tribunes of the people he is driven from the city. Revenge moves him to join forces with his mortal enemy against his motherland.
Review:
Shakespeare's play about the tension between sincerity and politics, pride and compassion, is given an invigorating contemporary spin by its being set in a kind of wartorn Balkan landscape, despite still nominally being set in Rome. The story now has resonances in the more modern demagoguery of militarist leaders in the Mediterranean theatre, not that Coriolanus ever shows much gift for mob rule; instead his is the tragedy of the man who, like Alceste, could not speak with painted words but his end is the same: a bloodied corpse thrown into the back of a truck. The best Shakespeare adaptation since Richard III, and cleverly poised between a digital newsreel aesthetic and a more formalistic approach.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbitt
Synopsis:
Rome's champion in the war against their neighbour, the Volscians, is nominated for the consulship, but when popular feeling hostile to his perceived arrogance is whipped up by the tribunes of the people he is driven from the city. Revenge moves him to join forces with his mortal enemy against his motherland.
Review:
Shakespeare's play about the tension between sincerity and politics, pride and compassion, is given an invigorating contemporary spin by its being set in a kind of wartorn Balkan landscape, despite still nominally being set in Rome. The story now has resonances in the more modern demagoguery of militarist leaders in the Mediterranean theatre, not that Coriolanus ever shows much gift for mob rule; instead his is the tragedy of the man who, like Alceste, could not speak with painted words but his end is the same: a bloodied corpse thrown into the back of a truck. The best Shakespeare adaptation since Richard III, and cleverly poised between a digital newsreel aesthetic and a more formalistic approach.