CORIOLANUS Special Screenings

In his feature film directing debut, Ralph Fiennes has crafted a masterful adaptation of one of the Bard’s most gripping tragedies. Setting Shakespeare’s verse against a modern backdrop of 24-hour cable news networks and instant polling, this story of power, politics and pride speaks strongly to our own volatile, polarized times. The film is set in “a Place Called Rome,” but it is clearly a crumbling contemporary city. Fiennes plays the title role, a noble but flawed general of great courage and unshakeable integrity – but the values that have served him and his country in battle will be his downfall as a politician. He is joined onscreen by a magnificent cast including Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, Brian Cox and, in a breakthrough performance, Gerard Butler CORIOLANUS is a towering achievement, a classic tale boldly updated as a bracingly modern and urgent political thriller