David Lowery Calls Justin Kurzel's 'Macbeth' An "Amped-Up Overpowering Tapestry"

Justin Kurzel's "Macbeth" rolls into limited release today, and Harvey Weinstein probably wishes more people were paying attention to it. For most of the folks who have been lucky enough to catch the movie thus far, they've been overtaken by the film's boldness, the performances by Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, and the director's uncompromising vision of Shakespeare's play (read our review). One fellow filmmaker has been impressed, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" director David Lowery.

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In a piece for The Talkhouse, Lowery affectionately gushes about the movie, one that he says will be remembered in the canon of "Macbeth" adaptations. Here's an excerpt from his write up: 

What a vision this movie is! A slowed-down, amped-up overpowering tapestry, one part spectacle and two parts hallucination. Shakespeare’s words are still there, for the most part, and...