The Tragedy of Macbeth – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH – Review by Susan Granger

January 11, 2022January 15, 2022 Susan Granger Bruno Delbonnel, carter burwell, denzel washington, frances mcdormand, joel coen, Stefan Dechant, The Tragedy of Macbeth

As a first-time solo director, Joel Coen takes a sparse, stylized look at one of Shakespeare’s most compelling plays. Filming in austere black-and-white, he presents an abstract physical world that’s filled with deep, geometric shadows, sharp angles and bleak walls, focusing on an ambitious middle-aged couple, determined to usurp political power in medieval Scotland.

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THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH – Review by T. J. Callahan

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022 T. J. Callahan Bruno Delbonnel, carter burwell, denzel washington, frances mcdormand, joel coen, Stefan Dechant, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Director Joel Coen goes solo as helmer for the first time with a stripped down version of Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring his Oscar winning wife, Frances McDormand, and fellow Oscar winner, Denzel Washington as the Lady and Lord of the castle. The film was shot in just 36 days — in much the same way the Bard might have done it with all of the action filmed completely on a sound stage — but Coen was still able to fully convey the bleak tension and disquiet of the times.

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THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH – Review by Diane Carson

December 9, 2021December 11, 2021 Diane Carson Bruno Delbonnel, denzel washington, frances mcdormand, joel coen, Stefan Dechant, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Joel Coen has breathed new life into the Scottish play in The Tragedy of Macbeth. Of course we know the story of the ambitious, heinous Lord Macbeth who kills to be kind and of Lady Macbeth’s encouragement, all in the service of their own demons and ultimate defeat, so surprising to them. Birnham Wood will come to Dunsinane and “none of woman born/Shall harm Macbeth,” but that does not include Macduff “untimely ripped from his mother’s womb.”