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Macbeth

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Original title: Macbeth
Year: 2015
Running time: 113 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Justin Kurzel
Screenwriter: Todd Louiso, Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie (Play: William Shakespeare)
Music: Jed Kurzel
Cinematography: Adam Arkapaw
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, Paddy Considine, David Thewlis, Elizabeth Debicki, Jack Reynor, David Hayman, James Michael Rankin, Barrie Martin, Ross Anderson
Producer: See-Saw Films, DMC Film, Film 4
Genre: Drama | Middle Ages
Movie Groups: Shakespeare: Macbeth
Synopsis / Plot: Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

Awards: 2015: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection

2015: Sitges Film Festival: Official Selection

2015: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Art Direction & Costume Design

2015: Goya Awards: nominated Best European Film

2015: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): 6 Nominations, including Best Movie

Critics' reviews

"Fearsomely visceral and impeccably performed, it’s a brisk, bracing update, even as it remains exquisitely in period."

Guy Lodge: Variety
"A bold, inventive and violent adaptation with two award-worthy lead performances."

Leslie Felperin: The Hollywood Reporter
"If you haven't seen Marion Cotillard play Lady Macbeth, you really haven't seen the role inhabited with the glorious fire and ice it needs to haunt your dreams. Purists will raise holy hell. Screw them. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Ultimately (...) the narrative innovation and stylized images lead the compelling adaptation to fall on its sword."

Kaleem Aftab: IndieWire
"Mr. Fassbender gives you a reason to see this 'Macbeth', although the writing isn't bad, either."

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"Fassbender was born for this. (...) The tragedy of Macbeth feels as vital and visceral here as it did in the hands of Roman Polanski and Akira Kurosawa (...) and there can be few higher compliments than that. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"

Robbie Collin: Telegraph
"Brutally effective (...) Shakespeare's play is more eviscerated than adapted, in a lean, mean and powerful piece of cinema. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"

Kate Muir: The Times
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