Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema Club-Romeo & Juliet

A few years after his debut, frantic filmmaker of glam tragedies Baz Luhrmann reads the archetypal story of Romeo and Juliet and orchestrates a love-struck film that flirts with kitsch, madly loves music and sacrifices itself on the altar of spectacle.

With ideal and worthy lovers Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, Luhrmann highlights Shakespeare's poetic discourse as an argument of amorous awakening that comes to life, writing cinematic history.

Far from the Elizabethan tradition and the theatrical stomp, the director finds the right cinematic tools for the recitation, edits the Montague-Capulet discord in an unsteady way, enriches Craig Armstrong's soundtrack with Garbage, Radiohead, and The Cardigans, drowns his sorrow couple in the neon lights of the Oscar-nominated stage design and at the right moment, it slows down and lets the well-known finale speak loudly as an unprecedented drama.

The second part of the "Red Curtain Trilogy" (which concluded with "Moulin Rouge!" in 2001), Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet" is a grunge, passionately in love and dying for style, frenzy film about, perhaps, the most famous literary couple of lovers of all time.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20th
ROMEO AND JULIET
Drama, Romance | K-13 | 1996 | USA | 120'
directed by Baz Luhrmann
starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
21:00 | Amphitheater Thod. Angelopoulos, Kalamata Labor Center
General admission is 5 euros. Admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, those with many children and students, and admission is free for those under 18.