Coriolanus (2011)

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I saw the Ralph Fiennes-directed movie of "Coriolanus" several weeks ago, in one of our local art-movie theaters. I had never seen the play performed, and had never read it, though I did read a detailed summary ahead of time.

As you can tell from the still, Fiennes chose to use a contemporary setting, and that, I feel, made the movie. The film was shot in eastern Europe, in Belgrade, and all of the soldiers, and the warfare that's shown, could easily have come from a news report. They ...