2016 #61
Billy Morrissette | 99 mins | streaming | 1.85:1 | USA / English | NR / R
Billy Morrissette | 99 mins | streaming | 1.85:1 | USA / English | NR / R
Shakespeare gets transposed to 1970s Pennsylvania in this blackly comedic reimagining of Macbeth, which converts the Thane of Glamis into a diner chef and the Scottish throne into ownership of a new concept: drive-thru.
Writer-director Billy Morrissette cleverly reconfigures aspects of the original (the witches are hippies; the ‘spot’ on Mrs Macbeth’s hand is a burn from spitting oil), but dodges being literally beholden to the text, allowing the humour and new situations to drive matters — you don’t need to be a fan of the Bard to get it.
It’s probably a little too long, but still an amusing variation.
