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2012 Movies

Movie	Rating	Review
Coriolanus	very good	I’m intimidated about writing a review on a Ralph Fiennes production of a Shakespearean play. Filmed on location in Serbia and Montenegro, this “city which calls itself Rome” is both modern and surreal. General Coriolanus stops at nothing in either squashing civil unrest within Rome, or fighting with bloody purity Rome’s sworn enemy – the neighboring city-state. It’s often said of people who accomplish grand feats that their greatest strength can also be the cause of their own destruction. And here there is destruction. It unfolds as certain as the unyielding spirit of Coriolanus himself, doomed by his ever-present power-starved mother (Vanessa Redgrave don’t pick no bad scripts). But in the final act – although it’s hard to tell who was the one who was truly betrayed, we clearly see who was the ultimate victim.

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