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Film at Lincoln Center has announced today that Joel Coen’s The Tragedy Of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand (Oscar-winner for her performance in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland), will be the Opening Night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival.
This latest retelling of William Shakespeare's tragedy - a rare solo work from Joel Coen who normally collaborates with his brother Ethan on films - stars Denzel Washington and Coen's wife Frances McDormand as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
The film also features Kathryn Hunter as the embodiment of the "weird sisters" who, along with his wife, fuels Macbeth's ambitions.
In the press release from the festival, the film is described as a "a work of stark chiaroscuro and incantatory rage".
It adds: "Though it echoes the forbidding visual designs—and aspect ratios—of Laurence Olivier’s classic 1940s Shakespeare adaptations,...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced today that Joel Coen’s The Tragedy Of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand (Oscar-winner for her performance in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland), will be the Opening Night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival.
This latest retelling of William Shakespeare's tragedy - a rare solo work from Joel Coen who normally collaborates with his brother Ethan on films - stars Denzel Washington and Coen's wife Frances McDormand as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
The film also features Kathryn Hunter as the embodiment of the "weird sisters" who, along with his wife, fuels Macbeth's ambitions.
In the press release from the festival, the film is described as a "a work of stark chiaroscuro and incantatory rage".
It adds: "Though it echoes the forbidding visual designs—and aspect ratios—of Laurence Olivier’s classic 1940s Shakespeare adaptations,...
- 7/22/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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