It’s strange to think that Baz Luhrman‘s revelatory Romeo + Juliet is almost 20 years old so it kind of makes sense that perhaps the most filmed story in the history of the world is ripe for another installment in the 2000s. Carlo Carlei tackles the tale of star-crossed lover who commit the most silly and hasty suicides in the history of silly and hasty suicides. God, I hope you already knew that. If you didn’t, please get off the internet and go read a book.
With little American credits to his name (outside of a story that broke my little heart when I was a child, Fluke) Carlei is a vastly unknown talent but he is joined by Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natascha McElhone as well as Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet and Douglas Booth as Romeo. While the trailer just looks like more of the same, I guess it’s not the worst thing in the world to have a new generation be introduced to Shakespeare’s most famous work. Any nowadays, it takes a movie adaptation for kids to be familiar with anything, amiright?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mdm6SafPM
Romeo and Juliet is directed by Carlo Carlei and stars Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Natascha McElhone. It hits limited release on September 6.
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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