Our review of Apple TV+'s The Tragedy of Macbeth starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand

Even Oscar-winning actresses keep their childhood dreams alive.

Already twice Lady Macbeth in the theater (including one in high school), Frances McDormand ardently wished to embody again on the boards the perfidious gray eminence of Shakespeare.

The

heroine has long pressed her husband, Joel Coen, to direct it.

After years of hesitation, the director of

preferred cinema and recruited Denzel Washinton to accompany his wife and play the regicide general.

Made for Apple TV+,

also marks his first feature film without his brother Ethan.

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There is a

Mystery .

Shakespeare's play, one of the shortest in his repertoire, is poorly represented on the boards.

In France, there are

and

by the shovel every season.

Sometimes a

or a

favor with a director, but

, also crowned and insane, is mostly ignored by theaters.

On the contrary, cinema loves tragedy...

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