The New Romeo and Juliet Hold Court at Cannes

It’s been sixteen years since director Baz Luhrmann put a gleefully anachronistic spin on Williams Shakespeare’s enduring classic Romeo and Juliet, and twenty-eight years before that, Franco Zeffirelli delivered his faithful big-screen version, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. Is it time, then, for a new take? At Cannes, producers … More »