The Tragedy of Macbeth movie review:- Joel Coen sets” Macbeth” in a stunning old movie world that obscures the audience, as Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are cast in the movie to take a desperate stab at power.
In no particular order, The Tragedy of Macbeth 105 minute movie which is directed by Joel Coen is out on Apple TV+ which remind me of German expressionist movie, gothic horror, Sin City released in 2005 and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, Performance in Training Day (2001) directed by Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand’s calculative and nervy roles in a few Coen brother’s movies.
Ethan Coen, who had written and directed 18 movies with his younger brother Joel Coen for more than three decades He chose not to be a part of The Tragedy of Macbeth project. This project is developed by Joel Coen and his life companion Frances McDormand, who has formerly played both the character of Lady Macbeth and one of the Weird Sisters in the 2016 stage adaptation.
The film is shot digitally in black and white with a 1:37:1 aspect ratio and pre-widescreen standard for USA sound film that gives you a frame that is nearly perfect square by Bruno Delbonnel. Denzel Washington is cast for the role of Macbeth and Frances McDormand for Lady Macbeth.
It is a movie you will appreciate if you know your Macbeth and films. But I am not confident if the movie ever climbed over its origins and influences. As I sat down to watch the newly released Joel Coen-directed movie The Tragedy of Macbeth out in theaters and now streaming on Apple TV+, I think that I have seen Macbeth play more than any other Shakespeare one. With the fame of some of the plays of Shakespeare’s efforts comes and goes with the shift in the taste of culture, over the past thirty years Macbeth has continued accurately in the number 3 slot.
Its regular popularity and cultural importance make a certain kind of sense. The Tragedy of Macbeth is among Shakespeare’s most tightly plotted and effective plays. This play can be directed in a number of observable genres from feudal political thrillers to supernatural horror to revenge tragedy.
One of the earliest surprises comes from Kathryn Hunter, who is all 3 Weird Sisters in one body, consistently divides into 3 and sporadically turns into a raven. For the three witches, she has a different voice which opens the film over the black screen.
We realize the conceit when we see Hunter in flesh. Her spidery body turns and twists like a tumbler’s before she gets up, ambles like a big bird, and underlines her perceptible condition of half crone and half raven. Wherever you look in a charmingly shot movie, there are straight lines, shadows, and symmetry in the movie.
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In the beginning, I was not convinced by the on-screen bond of Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the Macbeths, but I was convinced by the casting of the movie when Ducan ( played by Brendan Gleeson) is killed in the film. In many ways, Joel Coen’s (director of the movie) bard noir feels like an innovative and futuristic, updated story of Welles’ Macbeth.
