Will Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth—available on Apple TV+—appeal to anyone but die-hard Shakespeare nuts?
We discuss what could have possibly motivated Coen to tackle the material at this point in his career, and the pointed visual aesthetic that evokes a very particular period in cinema history.
Along the way, we talk about the performances of Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, and the environment that allows for these kind of auteur movies—Coen is writer, director, and editor—to exist.
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