Caesar Must Die

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. Full Review

The result feels, like Shakespeare's play, at once ancient and dangerously new. Full Review

The Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, have been blurring the line between reality and fiction in their films for six decades. Full Review

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. Full Review

This is a looser, grittier film than their work of late, and while it’s more successful in the sequences of bold theatricality than in the faux-cinéma vérité of the surrounding scenes, the mix is nonetheless an interesting one. Full Review