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Romeo and Juliet (1968)
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Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles of, well, kids. Seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey play the titular pair, the Bard's star-crossed lovers who defy a running feud between their families in order to be together in love. Typically played on stage and in previous film productions by adult actors, the innocent look and rawness of Whiting and Hussey resonated at the time with a burgeoning youth movement from San Francisco to Prague. The tragic romance at the center of the story also clicked with...
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Released in 1968 to highly enthusiastic critical acclaim - This would be the 3rd time (but, definitely, not the last time) that WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE's world-famous tale of Teen Tragedy in the 16th Century would be brought, in all its glory and splendor, to the silver screen.
Directed by FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI - This particular...
(complete Romeo and Juliet review by CowboyJunkie)
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