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Shakespeare al cinema: Macbeth - Il Medioevo di Roman Polanski

Won 1 BAFTA Film Award: Best Costume Design - Won 1 National Board of Review Award: Best Picture English Language - 1 Nomination BAFTA Awards: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music

MACBETH

(The Tragedy of Macbeth)

1971, regia di Roman Polanski

Scheda: Nazione: USA-GB - Produzione: Caliban Films, Playboy Productions Inc. - Distribuzione: CEIAD Columbia, Columbia Tristar Home Video, Tecnedit - Soggetto: dall'omonima tragedia di William Shakespeare - Sceneggiatura: Kenneth Tynan, Roman Polanski - Fotografia: Gilbert Taylor - Montaggio: Alastair McIntyre - Art Direction: Fred Carter - Costumi: Anthony Mendleson - Musiche: The Third Ear Band - Effetti speciali: Ted Samuels - Formato: Todd-AO 35, Todd-AO Cinemascope Technicolor - Durata: 141'.

Cast: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride, Nicholas Selby, Stephen Chase, Paul Shelley, Maisie MacFarquhar, Elsie Taylor, Noelle Rimmington, Noel Davis, Sydney Bromley, Richard Pearson, Patricia Mason, Michael Balfour, Andrew McCulloch, Keith Chegwin, Andrew Laurence, Bernard Archard, Bruce Purchase, Frank Wylie, Diane Fletcher, Mark Dightam, Bill Drysdale, Roy Jones, Vic Abbott, Ian Hogg.

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Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - imymovies.it - film.spettacolo.virgilio.it - cinekolossal.com - geocities.com/queeniemab - movieconnection.it - it.movies.yahoo.com - kataweb.it: «Nella Scozia dell'anno Mille Macbeth prende il posto del sovrano legittimo dopo averlo assassinato. Deve uccidere i testimoni del delitto e poi figli e amici di quanti ha ucciso prima finché viene ucciso lui stesso. Con l'aiuto di Kenneth Tynan, Roman Polanski ha avuto due belle intuizioni nella trasposizione di Shakespeare: fare di Macbeth e sua moglie una coppia di giovani mediocri, quasi piccoloborghesi; capire che i re di Scozia erano dei butteri e vivevano in rustici casolari. C'è la violenza, anche in eccesso, ma non la nera poesia della disperazione del testo. E i due giovani interpreti non sono...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - nfi.no - digitallyobsessed.com - bardolatry.com - dvdbeaver.com - allocine.fr - romanpolanski.free.fr - dieterwunderlich.de - lib.unc.edu: «This interpretation of MacBeth sparked an unusual amount of controversy for a production of Shakespeare. It is a violent film, full of kinetic, disturbing images of death and dying -- decapitations and brutal swordplay abound. Many interpreted the violence as an effort by the director to strike back at the public, especially the American public, for the horrible death of his wife, Sharon Tate, and others in the Manson slaughters. Whether that assessment has any validity or not is irrelevant to the fact that this version of MacBeth is actually thrilling to watch. The decision to go with young attractive actors in the roles of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth was a good one. Jon Finch is properly ambitious and brutish as the traitorous Lord. Francesca Annis is a lovely Lady MacBeth especially in the moments when her guilt makes her become distracted. A lot was made of the fact that Hugh Hefner and "Playboy" magazine produced the film. That too doesn't matter. The gore and noise and minor eroticism of the film does nothing to denigrate the play and is obviously closer to the reality of a violent, semi-barbaric epoch in history...».

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