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Coriolanus, Movie

Coriolanus 2011

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Actor Ralph Fiennes makes his directing debut with Coriolanus, a contemporary adaptation of  Shakespeare's tragedy about power, politics and revenge. Gerard Butler, James Nesbitt and Vanessa Redgrave also star.
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Fiennes is Coriolanus, a Roman war hero who under his mother's (Redgrave) influence makes a push into politics with his eye on the top position: Consul. After failing to connect with the common man, Coriolanus' rage angers the constituency leading to widescale riots. As the cause of the riots, he is ousted from Rome. Swearing revenge he allies with a former enemy (Butler) to avenge his former home. Hide

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128 votes / 28 comments The Talk

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    • Mike

      Intriguing!

    • Tom

      Awesome.

    • James

      I second Tom's awesome

    • strog

      looks awesome

    • empirical

      yeah baby!

    • theadore

      voldemort has been reborn as a muggle!!

    • Hodstar

      Ahhhhh, after all that waffle I still dont get it. Where's Harry Potter?

    • SamSwan

      Looking forward to this Hermione looking hot!

    • Paul

      Coriol, anus.

    • Lisa

      Goddammit Paul you've ruined this movie for all of us.

    • SamSwan

      Bad ass!

    • jen

      Clever transcription and brilliant subject...Yes Yes

    • reetz

      deff see this, 2 brilliant actors....

    • chris

      i thought the orther guy have the girl

    • Jess

      Looks great, and Ralph Fiennes is fantastic, woohoo!

    • Tania1

      Shakespeare I'm in love

    • June

      Ralph Fiennes? Yes please!

    • Sleepiest Squid

      Great filming.. Ralph Fiennes.. How could we not!?

    • Jess

      Why isn't this coming to Wellington??????

    • Kevin Welch

      saw this in melbourne - seering film and very relevant to today shakespeare with RPG's!

    • John

      Simplistic and predictable. Might appeal to readers of Classic Comics, Manga etc

    • Question

      Where are the screening times?

    • Liam-Maguren

      @Question: They're very limited: some screenings still available for Auck, Welly, Canterbury and Otago.

    • Hamish

      Great acting, well staged, but not a very happy story. Don't expect to be cheerful at the end.

    • Doug

      And they killed off Shakespeare in schools. Jeez

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Press Reviews

A.V. Club (USA)

As played by Ralph Fiennes in his own cinematic adaptation of the play, Coriolanus' military genius makes him a figure of awe, but it's his near-absence of empathy that makes him terrifying. Full review.

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

One of the pleasures of Fiennes' film is that the screenplay by John Logan ("Hugo," "Gladiator") makes room for as much of Shakespeare's language as possible. I would have enjoyed more, because such actors as Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox let the words roll trippingly off the tongue. Full review.

Empire (UK)

Exciting, ironic, with assured direction, accomplished performances and the tension of topical themes, this is Shakespeare as relevant as you like it. Full review.

Guardian (UK)

A deeply, divisively political work, devoid of comic relief and short on endearing characters, its complex moral conflicts are as knotty as the verse. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in Coriolanus as William Shakespeare's Rambo in a production that delivers heavyweight screen acting at its best. Full review.

New York Times

Then too there's the sheer pleasure of hearing these words spoken by an actor like Mr. Fiennes, whose phrasing is so brilliant, you might be tempted to close your eyes if his physical performance weren't equally mesmerizing. Full review.

Rolling Stone (USA)

Think "The Hurt Locker," which shares a cinematographer in Barry Ackroyd with no damage to the Bard's bruising poetry. Neat trick. Full review.

Time Out New York

In lesser hands, this could have easily been some seriously detestable John Wayne jingoism. But via Fiennes, the film is a spiky and complex counterweight to Hollywood sentiment and indie cynicism alike. Full review.