Pursuits
Rifle-Toting Fiennes Mows Down Rebels in Bloody ‘Coriolanus’
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A scarred, shaven, tattooed Ralph Fiennes in combat gear and wielding an assault rifle shoots up independence fighters in a burned-out city. This is Shakespeare, Fiennes-style.
His first full-length feature as director, “Coriolanus,” is showing in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. It’s a blood-soaked, action-packed update of one of Shakespeare’s trickier plays to stage. Fiennes and scriptwriter John Logan kept the original text though they cut large chunks and added scenes.