is this the best Shakespeare screen adaptation?
- Written by Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland
Bazmark FilmsIt is 25 years since Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann released his gloriously spectacular version of Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the doomed lovers.
While some praised the film as “clever and well-executed” and “genuinely inventive”, others labelled it “a...





