Younger talents Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld as the titular star-cross’d lovers never fare badly even if they fail to bring anything new to the roles. Paul Giamatti as Friar Lawrence is a welcome presence, crafting the character reliably well, and Lesley Manville as the Nurse also does well in making the character her own. And yet that is exactly what director Carlo Carlei and screenwriter Julian Fellowes - a man with several big screen writing credits to his name, but undoubtedly most famous these days as the creator of TV series Downton Abbey - spectacularly manage to do, making 2013’s version of Romeo & Juliet at best a disappointing waste of time, at worst an infuriating mess.Īdmittedly there are a handful of features which redeem this from being utterly unwatchable. When adapting what is almost universally regarded as one of the most perfectly crafted stories in human history, you have to get quite a lot of things wrong to ruin Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. 'almost universally regarded as one of the most perfectly crafted stories in human history, you have to get quite a lot of things wrong to ruin Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet'
0 kommentar(er)
