Director: Werner Schroeter
Cast: Anette Tirier, Magdalena Montezuma, Sigurd Salto, Suzanne Sheed,
Plot: Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
Criterion Blu-ray review: Polanski’s Macbeth (1971)
Roman Polanski’s Macbeth stands as one of the finest adaptations of Shakespeare on film, a seamless blend of poetry and harsh realism in its depiction of a cruel medieval world and the futility of […]