Macbeth (2015)
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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For that matter, Kurzel’s film — for all its grimness — has a few moments of striking visual grandeur, some of which is on a par with John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981).
With so much fighting and bleeding and emoting in the misty countryside, it was hard not to think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In the case of Justin Kurzel—an Australian director making only his second feature, after the gritty thriller The Snowtown Murders—that means if you're going to make another Macbeth, you'll be measuring up to interpretations of the same material made by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and Roman Polanski.
In case it’s been a while since high school English class, or since you’ve watched previous film adaptations of “Macbeth” by Roman Polanski or Orson Welles : In 11th-Century Scotland, the great warrior Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from three witches that he will be king someday.
Over the years, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has attracted some of cinema’s heaviest hitters: Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa (whose Throne Of Blood transposes the play to feudal Japan).