Review of Caesar Must Die (2012) by Cristiana C — 01 Aug 2015

'Caesar Must Die' is a drama which unfolds within the physical confines of an actual Italian prison. Neither a full documentary nor a movie, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is reinterpreted by the real inmates of Rome's Rebibbia prison, who stage the historical episode of Caesar's assassination and its aftermath.

By bringing into the story their personal existential wounds and future expectations, this docufiction explores in depth the inmates' internal conflicts and their yearning for some ultimate salvation.

In one of the final lines of this transcendentally powerful drama-within-a-drama, one of the inmates opens up even further honestly telling us that "now that I have found art, this cell of mine looks like a prison.

" Moving and inspiring at the same time.