City Open Air Cinema

Romeo + Juliet

Credits

Country :

USA

Year :

1996

Director :

Baz Luhrmann

Version :

vostFR

Duration :

120 minutes

Format :

digital

Actors :

Leonardo DiCaprio, Claie Danes, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite

Awards :

Silver Bear for Best Actor (DiCaprio), Berlinale 1997

Age classification :

12+

📖 Based on the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare

synopsis

Verona Beach. The Montagues and the Capulets fuel a spiral of violence… until Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Baz Luhrmann shakes up this 400-year-old play and turns it into a dazzling modern spectacle, blending Shakespeare’s dialogue with bold visuals and the unforgettable chemistry of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence.

Rolling Stone

Luhrmann’s gleefully cinematic version of the play is so relentlessly inventive and innovative, it takes 20 minutes to get a grasp on how appropriate his approach to the material is. Bravely (but sensibly) sticking with the original dialogue, he makes the central element of his audacious adaptation sheer visual : as the camera races wildly around, or rests on luminous close-ups and ornate tableaux, the striking sets, costumes, characters, the colours and compositions serve perfectly to evoke the forces of wealth and poverty, love and hate, power and pride, prejudice and superstition.

Time Out