Movie No. 37 (2014): CAESAR MUST DIE
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri
The events in the film takes in a maximum-security prison. The inmates are staging a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The film, while having the elements of a documentary, is truly fiction that accounts for the pre-production (including auditions), rehearsals, and finally, the staging of the play. All these occur within the confines of the walls of the prison, and one can't (even for while) neglect that these things are happening in the prison. It's so artful how the screenplay merges the dialogues distilled from the play and those that are of the inmates' own. Sometimes, it gets confusing whether the inmates are talking their parts in the play or speaking their own minds. Well, it must be that they've become the characters their assigned to play.
Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri
The events in the film takes in a maximum-security prison. The inmates are staging a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The film, while having the elements of a documentary, is truly fiction that accounts for the pre-production (including auditions), rehearsals, and finally, the staging of the play. All these occur within the confines of the walls of the prison, and one can't (even for while) neglect that these things are happening in the prison. It's so artful how the screenplay merges the dialogues distilled from the play and those that are of the inmates' own. Sometimes, it gets confusing whether the inmates are talking their parts in the play or speaking their own minds. Well, it must be that they've become the characters their assigned to play.
This film won Best Film (Golden Bear) at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
Date seen: April 16, 2014
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