Fast paced yet deliberate, violent yet pensive, Coen’s Macbeth is one Shakespeare adaptation you may well see today and then crave to experience again “tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.”
His hair is graying. His nerves are fraying. Denzel Washington’s Macbeth is a man quite literally running out of time, even before he meets those witches.
At 66, Washington is certainly at the older end of the spectrum of conceivable Macbeths. But it makes wonderful sense: In Joel Coen’s brilliantly imagined, brilliantly executed The Tragedy of Macbeth, we confront a man who knows in his bones his aching bones that the witches’ prophecy has given him his last chance to be what wants, no, deserves! King of Scotland.
For an actor of Washington’s unique skill set, not to mention facility
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Stars align in 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' with a mature and experienced cast meeting an austere and chilling cinematic universe that seems half real, half fantasy