By Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian, 1 October 2015
Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel, famed for his harrowing crime movie Snowtown, has tackled Shakespeare’s noir-thriller prototype Macbeth with operatic verve and an appetite for textual interpretation. As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are a dream-team pairing, actors who radiate pure heady charisma, perhaps more than can be entirely absorbed into the fabric of the film.
As ever, Cotillard – wounded, watchful – is able to give to the camera extraordinarily nuanced meanings without saying a word. Fassbender is perhaps less assured with Macbeth’s introverted vulnerability but always effortlessly virile and watchable, portraying Macbeth’s outbursts of anger and crazed resentment as he reinforces his usurper’s position with an escalating series of violent acts.
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