For the uninitiated, less text means less to overcome. Kurzel allows for the camera to fill in the blanks of the cuts which is a positive and a negative. The text is pared down by writers Todd Louiso, Michael Lesslie, and Jacob Koskoff to its core. Cotillard does nothing to mask her French accent, giving her an outsider’s status, one of increasing isolation until there’s no where else to go but death. Fassbender plays Macbeth as a warrior with growing ambition matched only by his deepening PTSD. The performances are incredible, particularly in the two leads. A great effect, though a bit too on-the-nose by the end of the afternoon. At key moments in the film, director Justin Kurzel used filters to make the sky red, blood red. Stunning (though at times, stark) visuals. (and people, it’s gone-gone as of the 31st)… as luck (good luck, that is) would have it, it was playing in Pasadena, where my wife and I like to spend our anniversary.Ībsolutely beautiful. As of last weekend, the film was playing in only one theater in southern California, and there only for one matinee showing a day. After waiting three weeks to see the new Macbeth film (with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard), I found myself in a bit of a fix.
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