Romeo + Juliet

Τhe film will be screened with a newly restored digital print and a dynamic stereophonic sound system. In collaboration with the Australian Embassy in Greece​.

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino
Runtime: 120’
Year of Production: 1996
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek

A few years after his debut feature "Strictly Ballroom", the frenetic filmmaker of glam tragedies reads the archetypal story of Romeo and Juliet and orchestrates a love-struck film that flirts with kitsch, loves music madly and sacrifices itself on the altar of spectacle. With Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as ideal lovers, Baz Luhrmann brings Shakespeare's poetic discourse to life as an argument of erotic awakening that comes to life on the "cinema" stage.

Far from Elizabethan tradition and theatrical flourishes, the director finds the right cinematic tools for the recitation, edits the Montague - Capulet discord in a staggering way and enriches Craig Armstrong's soundtrack with Garbage, Radiohead, The Cardigans, drowns the couple's grief in the neon lights of the - Oscar-nominated - set design and, at the right moment, lowers speed, lowers volume and lets the famous finale speak loudly as an unprecedented drama.

Part two of the "Red Curtain Trilogy'' (which concluded with "Moulin Rouge!" in 2001), Luhrmann’s "Romeo and Juliet" is a grunge cinematic frisk, falling passionately in love and dying for style. Panos Gkenas