Review of Throne of Blood (1957) by Anthony Lane for New Yorker — 04 Mar 2013
No stage production could match Kurosawa's Birnam Wood, and, in his final framing of the hero -- a human hedgehog, stuck with arrows -- he conjures a tragedy not laden with grandeur but pierced, like a dream, by the absurd.
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This review of Throne of Blood (1957) was written by Anthony Lane and published by New Yorker on 04 Mar 2013.
Throne of Blood has generally received very positive reviews.
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