In the latest screen adaption of the great Shakespearean tragedy, director Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is bold, visceral, and visually stunning. As Macbeth, Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs, 12 Years a Slave) delivers a powerful and fierce performance in this dark drama of all-consuming passion and ambition, set in the medieval, war torn Scottish highlands. Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (Two Days One Night, La Vie en Rose) as his conniving and ambitious wife, Lady MacBeth, is equally commanding and nuanced as she descends into grief, despair, and ultimately, madness. Stellar performances, together with unrelenting dramatic tension amidst sweeping landscapes and battlefields, make for a thrilling and fresh take on Shakespeare’s centuries-old tale.
(UK, 2015) 113 minutes
