![]() ![]() “I know that I’ve got darkness, but for the most part I try and smile as much as I can, you know?” he said, while smiling. It takes some liberties with the back story, but kids love its grittiness (and, yes, goriness). Variety praises it as fearsomely visceral and impeccably performed, it’s a brisk, bracing update, even as it remains exquistely in period. Earlier that day, he’d spun out a Mustang at close to 100 miles an hour while I screamed like a terrified child, so maybe I was a bit biased, but as we sat at the bar I started listing all the other roles where his characters behaved badly: the predatory older lothario of 2009’s Fishtank, the unfeeling, clinically detached robot of 2012’s Prometheus, the sex addict in 2011’s Shame, and on and on and on. Macbeth (2015) showcases Australian Michael Fassbender in a cinematic big screen treasure. That was the year he starred in 12 Years a Slave as a pitiless, drunken slave-owner, torn up about his love for one of his slaves and in The Counselor as a smug lawyer who makes a very bad decision to start a business relationship with a homicidal cartel. The 2015 Macbeth movie, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Michael Fassbender as Macbeth and Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth, is a visually stunning adaptation of William Shakespeares classic tragedy. More info at this website: a24films.Two years ago, I sat at a bar off a racetrack with Michael Fassbender and asked him, among other things, why he seemed drawn, over and over again, to characters that break bad-men who maybe want to be good but end up being the other thing. It’s villainous, yes -but also skeweringly sad.” ( The Telegraph) “The couple’s ages are integral: Washington and especially McDormand play the plot as a desperate last snatch at power, rather than the actions of a bloodthirsty power couple on the rise. ![]() As Lady Macbeth, who with her husband bloodily conspires to fulfil the witches’ predictions, Frances McDormand is his equal, tracing her own distinct but intertwined tragic fall, and half-goading, half-tempting her husband on like a noir femme fatale. “Washington … brilliantly traces the contours of Macbeth’s undoing, from ambition to apprehensiveness then down through mounting despair to nihilistic resignation. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this 'bold and inventive' (The Hollywood Reporter) adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy. “It’s as cold and weird and lucid as a waking dream, shot in a pristine, magnesium-bright monochrome, and situated on stark, angular sets that melt into abstraction as they approach the edges of the near-square screen.… The Tragedy of Macbeth is a raw, lucid retelling, rendered spellbinding by its enveloping stylized design and its masterful black-and-white visuals, evoking the chiaroscuro textures of Carl Theodor Dreyer.” ( The Hollywood Reporter) “Furious and fleet, emotional and elemental, Joel Coen’s stripped-down take on the Scottish play instantly secures its place among the most audacious modern screen adaptations of Shakespeare.… Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, leading a superlative ensemble, play not just the ruthless thirst for power but also the anxious race against time to seize their place in history, instead sealing their self-destruction. At this point, William Shakespeare's tragedy of witchy regicide has been adapted into over 30 movies, most recently in 2015 with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotilard, so with any new Macbeth the. Coen is very much in Welles’s footsteps here. Kurosawa, Polanski and Kurzel (the one with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard) go for the epic, while Welles (a child of the theatre) goes inward. Shakespeare’s Macbeth has drawn leading cinema directors, including Kurosawa, Welles and Polanski.
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