![]() ![]() Then again, maybe they're hoping to spare teenage English students everywhere who, like me, had to watch the 1968 classic alongside their teacher. Fair enough, but the proceedings have more than air of 'why bother?' when Zeffirelli's already been there. Opting not for a modern day retelling a'la Baz Luhrmann (which wouldn't really work nowadays on hearing from Benvolio that Romeo is full of woe by his love's side, we would have to endure the Friar commenting "Wait didn't he get my text?") they return the narrative to the correct time period and the very streets of Verona Shakespeare set his play upon. ![]() ![]() Was yet another version truly needed? Director Carlo Carlei and writer/producer Lord Snooty.I mean, Julian Fellowes, seem to think so. Watching it today, I'm wondering why they bothered. This most recent adaptation of Shakespeare's oft-told tale was the big Christmas Day matinee on BBC2. ![]()
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