Screening Room: ‘Macbeth’

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair / Hover through the fog and filthy air” (Weinstein Company)

It’s been awhile since anybody has dared make a film of the Scottish Play. Maybe the curse is finally over? In any case, you could do much worse than Michael Fassbender as the ambitious Thane and Marion Cotillard as the scheming Lady Macbeth.

A new and veryatmosphericMacbeth opens this week. My review is atFilm Journal International:

Soaked in foggy Highland gloom, JustinKurzel’s beautifully dour Macbe...