Review of Titus (1999) by Joseph S — 21 May 2008
Julie Taymor takes Shakespear's most critically sandblasted play (some insist he never wrote it), about revenge, and turned into one of the most visually stunning, and complex shakespear adaptations ever made.
Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" puts the classic in a modern garb, Taymor's "Titus" however, distorts notions of time, place, and genre, and presents a trully unique take on Shakespears work, which explores a variety of ideas touched on in the original text, but brought to the surface with our modern knowledge of fascism, racism, power, family, the imagination,etc.
This is a film, I have no difficulting calling beautiful, some images have firm taken roots inmy mind, even before I could understand what the characters were talking about. This is'nt just Shakespear made easy, or Shakespear made modern, this is Shakespear transformed by a legacy of critical theory, theatircal evolution, and art cinema.
A completely unique film, that can be understood without a text book, though one always helps. Makes "Across The Universe" all the more dissapointing.
This review of Titus (1999) was written by Joseph S on 21 May 2008.
Titus has generally received positive reviews.
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