Titus

United Kingdom, Italy, United States

1999

162 Min

Color

2.35:1

Latin, English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor, Jody Patton

SCR William Shakespeare, Julie Taymor

CAST Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Harry Lennix, Laura Fraser, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Angus Macfadyen, Blake Ritson, Matthew Rhys, Kenny Doughty, James Frain, Colm Feore

War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor’s crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler’s venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus’s daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus’s sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There’s irony in which two sons survive. –IMDb

Director

Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor’s work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers.

Taymor has also worked in film in recent years, directing Titus (1999) and Frida (2002). Both movies received positive reviews for their stylish filming; but Frida… read more

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Sam Everett

9Feb13

Visually stunning for the most part. Highly enjoyable.

Roscoe

21Dec12

An outlandish over the top film of one of Shakespeare's most outlandish over the top plays. Fascinating and thrilling and devastating in the best ways.

Matthew_Lucas

20Jun12

Julie Taymor's wildly imaginative update of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" casts Anthony Hopkins in the title role, a Roman general whose faithfulness to the new emperor is betrayed when he takes the former Goth queen as his wife, who is determined to undermine the empire for her own devices. Fiercely original, Taymor's unique vision is often her own worst enemy, but flashes of brilliance prevail here.

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