SDFF Review: Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare adaptation "Coriolanus" is an interesting failure
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Film Rating: C
My film professor asserts that the English are too reverential towards William Shakespeare to make effectively cinematic adaptations of his work. I tend to agree. Shakespeare’s writing is masterful, but it’s clearly intended for the stage, not for the screen, and filmmakers’ hesitation to make changes often results in stagey, uncomfortab…
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