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- As a play, Measure for Measure is complicated, twisty, and bawdy, but in this adaptation, it's just convoluted. In other words: Shakespeare, this is not. Screenwriters often enjoy trying to contemporize the Bard's framework to create works of their own, and that can be fun in films like 10 Things I Hate About You or The Lion King.
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Measure for Measure: Directed by Paul Ireland. With Hugo Weaving, Claude Jabbour, Harrison Sloan Gilbertson, Daniel Henshall. The lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event occurs on their front doorstep.
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- Drama
- Paul Ireland
- 2020-09-03
7/10. A good adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. Measure for Measure does a lot of things right, starting with very good performance's from the whole cast especially Hugo Weaving, Harrison Gilbertson and Megan Hajjar, who all add a lot of emotion and put a large amount of passion in the film and it most definitely reflects well with ...
Sep 4, 2020 · Based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, Paul Ireland’s Measure for Measure is filled with drama, although perhaps not the kind you’d expect from the Bard. No, this is a modern-day adaptation—one grappling with xenophobia, drug addiction, and gun violence.
Shakespeare’s tale of power and punishment is relocated to 1900s Vienna where a young nun is compromised by a corrupt official in this provocative production from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Sep 11, 2019 · In fact, this subversion of the classic Guy Ritchie/Quentin Tarantino formula – where a gaggle of gangsters feud and talk fast until there’s only one man standing – is Measure For Measure’s greatest strength and weakness.
An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
