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Jul 11, 2019Palomino rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant. Take away the stage and it's an entirely different story, instead of posturing and shouting it's a tale told like a dream in long silences, slow words, violins, intimate eye contact, and tears. When I think of Macbeth I don't think of horses on the beach, or snowcapped mountains, or the fires of Mordor, but I will from now on. Imagine "the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" crossed with any episode of Viking adventure "The Last Kingdom", all filmed by the crew who make Hannibal TV show, "visually spectacular" doesn't begin to describe it. Outdoors I'm just in awe of our planet, and indoors everyone is lit like a Rembrandt. Normally Mr Fassbender steals the show whatever he is in, but happily he can't here because there's Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, and some sulky kid who doesn't even get any lines to stand up to him. Furthermore, as one critic pointed out, the writing is not bad either.