NYT review of new film of Macbeth
Jul 6th, 2007 by Debra Murphy
Geoffrey Wright, the director who gave us (by way of a truly disturbing performance by Russell Crowe) the truly disturbing movie about Australian skinheads, Romper Stomper, has re-envisioned Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a drug-land setting, complete with the three witches as Goth chicks.
Yikes.
It isn’t clear to me from the review how much of the script is new and how much of Shakespeare’s original text remains, but I confess I can’t wait to see it, either way.
