This is a massive oversimplification, of course-and Kurzel’s “Macbeth,” adapted by Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie and Todd Louiso and running just under two hours, does feel a bit truncated.

None of this goes down as easily as he’d hoped. (Kurzel’s version actually gives us a fourth witch for fun.) His miserable and driven wife urges him to expedite the process by killing King Duncan ( David Thewlis) and seizing the crown for himself. In case it’s been a while since high school English class, or since you’ve watched previous film adaptations of “Macbeth” by Roman Polanski or Orson Welles: In 11 th-Century Scotland, the great warrior Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from three witches that he will be king someday. Cotillard, meanwhile, has an otherworldly quality that makes her menacing-a quiet intensity in those enormous eyes and a standoffishness that makes her seem unpredictable, even though we’re all-too aware of the devious plot her Lady Macbeth has in store. Still, the danger that lurks beneath his lean, cool good looks gives his Macbeth an especially unsettling air.

Fassbender has made a career out of playing complicated, tormented figures, in movies ranging from “ Hunger” to “Shame” to “ 12 Years a Slave.” The murder and madness of Macbeth are his bread and butter. This “Macbeth” also grabs you with the charismatic presence of its two stars, Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. ( Adam Arkapaw, the cinematographer, also shot the great Aussie indie “Animal Kingdom” as well as Kurzel’s debut feature, “Snowtown.”) The look of it is so richly rough-hewn, you’ll feel as if you could reach out and touch it, even as the characters’ actions become increasingly repulsive.

And even though things will “be a little different,” Burwell said he thinks the movie will have that familiar Coen voice.Chunks of mud and drops of blood fly across bleak, gray skies and craggy highlands in super slow motion. During a 2020 interview with Collider, composer Carter Burwell (who composed many of Coen’s movies including his latest) discussed working with Joel Coen on his own when they were first talking about this film. Upon reading about the movie, you might find it strange to only see Joel Coen’s name listed as the writer and director for The Tragedy of Macbeth, but that will be the case this time around. That all changes with The Tragedy of Macbeth. And even though Ethan Coen wasn’t credited as a director on some of those movies, he has very much been part of the process. Going back to their 1984 feature-length film debut Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen, known together as the Coen brothers, have written and directed some of the most important films of all time including Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country For Old Men. Joel Coen Is Making This Movie Without His Filmmaking Partner And Brother

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