Macbeth - La tragedia dell'ambizione

The Weird Sisters Prophesy Blood From a Dance Floor

For four centuries William Shakespeare's plays have been reinvented to fit contemporary sensibilities. But few recent efforts can match the Australian writer and director Geoffrey Wright's brutal and thrilling new version, which envisions the thane of Cawdor as a longhaired, drug-addled gangster and his poisoned realm as a decadent MTV dreamscape of nymphet witches, smoky nightclubs and point-blank, slow-motion gun battles.
Laudably, though, this Macbeth isn't content to riff on Shakespeare's short and bracingly violent tragedy. [...]

di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (3957 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 Luglio 2007