Michael Fassbender

Marion Cotillard

Paddy Considine

Sean Harris

Jack Reynor

Elizabeth Debicki

David Thewlis

David Hayman

Maurice Roëves

Ross Anderson

James Harkness

Jack Madigan

Frank Madigan

Lochlann Harris

Kayla Fallon

Lynn Kennedy

Seylan Baxter

Amber Rissmann

Scot Greenan

Hilton McRae

Brian Nickels

Scott Dymond

Andrew Gourlay

Eleanor Stagg

William Stagg

Matthew Stagg

Rebecca Benson

Gerard Miller

Roy Sampson

Phil Lonergan

Barrie Martin

Robert J. Fraser

Arron Cuthbertson

Justin Kurzel

Iain Canning

Fiona Crombie

Emile Sherman

Adam Arkapaw

Chris Dickens

Jo Beckett

Jina Jay

William Shakespeare

Jacqueline Durran

Peter Robertson

Jens Baylis

Markus Stemler

Rupert Davies

Ricky Butt

Steve Single

Mike Kelt

Rosa Romero

Angela Barson

Lee Walters

Laura Hastings-Smith

Alan Hall

Rob Farris

Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor

Alastair Sirkett

Jack English

Jan Guilfoyle

Gilbert Lake

Jonathan Collard

Jonathan Olley

Jo Dixon

Gemma McKeon

Patrick Malone

Nigel Hyams

Luan Placks

Kirsty Mcqueen

Nicky Ackland-Snow

Georgina Gunner

Jenny Shircore

Sinéad Kidao

Kathryn Fa

Hannah Edwards

Rebecca Milton

Marc Pilcher

Lauren Briggs-Miller

Kate Walling

Dan Johnson

Joe Hopker

Marco Anton Restivo

Anne Moralis

Alice Felton

Jake Collier

Katie Money

Bob Weinstein

Andrew Warren

Jenny Borgars

Michael Lesslie

Harvey Weinstein

Jacob Koskoff

Todd Louiso

Danny Perkins

Tessa Ross

Olivier Courson

Jed Kurzel

Sara Desmond

Ross Busby

James Osborn-Brown

Nick Dent

Darrell Warner

Nuala Alen-Buckley

Samantha Joly

Simone Nicholson

Kevin Fitzpatrick

Simon Tindall

Richard George Robert Scott

Gavin Walters

Lizzie Kelly

Samantha Black

Nana Fischer

Olly Tellett

Ryan Stuart

Drama

Macbeth

Anton Capital Entertainment

See-Saw Films

Creative Scotland

DMC Film

Film4 Productions

StudioCanal

The Weinstein Company

France

United Kingdom

English

scotland

medieval

11th century

Andres Gomez

The directing and the photography are very good. The use of the color, the smoke and fog and the speed of the camera are very well chosen.

Fassbender gives a very good performance, but it swallows everybody else in the movie.

What I don't like that much of this version is that Lady Macbeth almost fades away. Her character is not as important as it should be and, in the end, everything is expected and everything becomes a bit boring.

CinemaSerf

The thing about this play is that it is almost impossible to distil it down to two hours. Like most of Shakespeare's tragedies, there is immense richness in the language; in the pace the story develops; in the nuanced characterisations and in the imagery. Sure, the medium can reduce the need for much of the more descriptive narrative but it still takes time for the plotting and scheming; the menace and the power lust to percolate through. Now this isn't a terrible interpretation. Michael Fassbender is reasonable as the ambitious Thane of Glamis. He is informed by three witches after a battle that his accession to King Duncan's throne is assured, and together with his equally determined wife (Marion Cotillard) he sets about expediting that process. Not everyone believes his feigned innocence though, and that means he has to start removing his detractors - not least Banquo (Paddy Considine) and the late king's son Malcolm (an oddly cast Jack Raynor), and it's at this point that their cunning plan begins to unravel. The film looks great, the soundtrack is eerie and effective and the costumes, scenery and lighting really do help to convey something of the real Scottish environment; but again the absence of many significant plot lines - the caveats with the witches' initial prophecy, for example, rob the storyline of much of it's complex potency. The character of Lady Macbeth is underused as an underpinning motivation for her husband's actions and essentially we are just left with a rather straightforward story of power-hungry murder. It is worth watching, but it is also underwhelming.

MACBETH - Official Trailer #2

MACBETH - OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER

MACBETH - Official Clip "Coronation" - With Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard

MACBETH - Official Clip "Battle" - With Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard

Macbeth( 2015)

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Written by Andres Gomez on Mon Oct 17 2016

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