Romeo + Juliet
Romeo + Juliet
Laemmle Theatres is proud to present a special Valentine's Day screening of Baz Luhrmann's ROMEO + JULIET.
Shakespeare's renown play updated to the hip 90's streets of Verona, Italy. Staring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes with a soundtrack including the likes of Radiohead, Garbage and the Butthole Surfers. Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) takes his unique visual style and as Desson Thomas of the Washington Post states "Puts Shakespeare's greatest romance in a choke-hold and takes it slam-dancing."
Tickets are just $7 and the show starts at 9:55PM at Laemmle's brand new NoHo 7.
The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of West Side Story when they form rival gangs. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins, but at the end of one very wild party he realizes that Juliet (Claire Danes) is a Capulet and the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst. He relies heavily -- and with serious consequences -- on his rebel gender-bender of a friend, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau Jr.), and Father (not Friar) Lawrence (Pete Postlethwaite) for protection and support. Romeo is, of course, exiled, and it looks like Juliet will be forced into an arranged marriage with the bland Paris (Paul Rudd). It ends, as Romeo and Juliet must, when Romeo hears a tragic piece of misinformation and brings his suicide wish to what was meant to be Juliet 's temporary tomb. This time, though, the turf and the weapon of choice have taken a turn toward the surreal. (Rovi/All Movie Guide)
“Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence.” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
“Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence.” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
Genre
Crime,
Drama,
Romance
Runtime
120
Language
English
Director
Baz Luhrmann
Cast
Harold Perrineau,
Pete Postlethwaite,
Paul Sorvino,
Brian Dennehy,
Paul Rudd,
Vondie Curtis-Hall,
Miriam Margolyes,
Jesse Bradford,
M Emmet Walsh,
Dash Mihok
Played at
NoHo 7 2.14.12 - 2.14.12
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