Friday, January 20, 2012

Coriolanus

In point of fact, Coriolanus was already a tightly plotted action thriller, but screenwriter John Logan has performed a fairly radical word-ectomy on the play, paring it down to short, allusive, often nearly dialogue-free scenes. Fiennes cleverly uses elements of the production design to establish the back story, with snippets of exposition coming at us through a variety of modern media?television chat shows, cable-news crawls, street graffiti. War hero Caius Martius (Fiennes), having returned from a major military victory, is being encouraged by advisors and by his fiercely patriotic mother (Redgrave) and adoring wife (Jessica Chastain) to seek the consulship of Rome. (An early title establishes the setting as ?a place calling itself Rome,? but the action unrolls in a nondescript-looking modern-day city?the film was mainly shot in Belgrade, Serbia.)

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