I was slightly disappointed with Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth. The acting is superb all around, but it's Kathryn Hunter, playing a variety of characters throughout, including all three witches, who walks away with the movie. Rather than try to open up the work for the screen, he instead goes the opposite direction, making this film look purposefully artificial, like it's being performed on the grandest of theater stages. Coen goes all in on atmosphere, and this has to be one of the most gorgeous looking movies released this year. It's really good, and it fully embraces what I like best about the play, its twisted and macabre aesthetic. Yaël Farber is an internationally acclaimed director and playwright, whose recent work includes Hamlet (St Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Blood Wedding (Young Vic), Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse) and Les Blancs (National Theatre).I'm usually not a huge fan of Shakespeare on screen, but "Macbeth" is my favorite Shakespeare play, so that combined with my curiosity about what Joel Coen would do with the material drew me to see this one. She made her Broadway debut as Abigail Williams in The Crucible on Broadway in 2016 to glowing reviews and has been celebrated throughout her career for her performances in films including Atonement, Lady Bird, Brooklyn and Little Women. His screen work includes HBO’s Mare of Easttown, Ammonite, Mary Queen of Scots and Man in an Orange Shirt.įour-time Academy Award-nominated Saoirse Ronan makes her UK stage debut as Lady Macbeth. His highly acclaimed theatre roles include Louis in the National Theatre and Broadway production of Angels in America, Peter Gynt, Platonov and James I in The James Plays (National Theatre). Olivier Award nominee James McArdle plays the title role of Macbeth. Yaël Farber directs James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan in an elemental production about a world in transformation, the shadows in all of us and one couple’s spine-chilling quest for power. 'Stars, hide your fires Let not light see my black and deep desires.'Ī little later than now, in the ruins of a theatre, three witches make a prophecy.Ī warrior and his wife enter the darkness.
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