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Caesar Must Die
Directed by
Vittorio Taviani
,
Paolo Taviani
Not Rated
2012
76m
Drama
,
Documentary
7.3
92%
74%
7.2
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Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
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Where to Watch Caesar Must Die
Apple TV
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Cast of Caesar Must Die
Giovanni Arcuri
Cesare
Cosimo Rega
Cassio
Salvatore Striano
Bruto
Antonio Frasca
Marcantonio
J. Dario Bonetti
Decio
Vincenzo Gallo
Lucio
Vittorio Taviani
Director / Writer
Paolo Taviani
Director / Screenplay
Paolo Del Brocco
Co-Producer
Simone Zampagni
Director Of Photography
Roberto Perpignani
Editor
William Shakespeare
Original Story
Caesar Must Die Ratings & Reviews
ARTINFO.com
J. Hoberman
Despite its lean and hungry look, the Taviani Brothers' Caesar Must Die may be the most effectively gimmicked version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the 75 years since Orson Welles's modern-dress, anti-fascist staging.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
... "Caesar Must Die" combines documentary, theater, and fiction in ways that could hardly be more au courant.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
A double hybrid that occupies a space somewhere between documentary and fiction right along the border of cinema and theater.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
It is almost an impertinence to think that we understand the thoughts of these actors and those in the audience who are relatives and friends. But this is the intriguing privilege that the Taviani brothers have given us.
Time Out Chicago
A.A. Dowd
The problem with the film, which somewhat inexplicably won the Golden Bear at Berlin last year, is that it scarcely transcends the basic novelty of its premise.
Detroit News
Tom Long
There's an intensity and emotional accuracy to the performances that's just stunning, particularly Striano's Brutus, as he longs for death and release.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Prison theatricals are nothing new in the movies, but Caesar Must Die, a quasi-documentary featuring hardened convicts acting out Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, is in a class by itself.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Ranks among the most involving adaptations of Shakespeare ever put on screen ...
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
What works best is what's readily accessible, the startling power of performers who understand the drama all too well.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The film gets on screen not only the play's bloody, double-dealing, hungry essence, but the redemptive potential of art.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The Tavianis blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, but they couldn't do it without the full complicity of their actors, or the audience.
AV Club
Noel Murray
In Caesar Must Die, the characters are both actor and audience, looking at themselves through the lens of a centuries-old fictionalization of history.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
You can only guess what the lines mean to the inmates, who register as atmospheric blanks at best and brutal exotics at worst, even if the tale that they enact with such earnest vigor works because the original tragedy does.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
So solid is that conception, and so resonant the text in which questions of freedom and slavery are paramount, that the impact can hardly be diminished.
Film.com
Jordan Hoffman
A gimmick film that begins to feel like a whole, natural piece.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Moving away from the literary costume dramas that have been their principal terrain for many years, the Taviani Brothers explore a fascinating encounter between theater and reality.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
In a scant hour and a quarter it enlarges your notion of what theater and cinema, what art itself, can do -- it dissolves every boundary it meets.
NPR
Bob Mondello
The Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, have been blurring the line between reality and fiction in their films for six decades.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie's predominant black-and-white palette pares the action to its starkest outlines, and a few color sequences reconnect the prison, and the prisoners, to the surrounding world.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
Deceptively modest on nearly all accounts, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die employs seemingly minor directorial contrivances to ruminate on a unique quarrel.
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