Has Anyone Seen the Coriolanus Film Yet?

Those of you in the big markets, do go out and see this new adaption, by Ralph Fiennes, of the classic Shakespearean presentation of republican manliness and its tragic pitfalls.

Here’s a brief Christian meditation on the film.

And here are my somewhat pessimistic expectations for it that I aired some time ago. But do go see it, and do tell me what you think if you have.

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

A Catholic Approach to Immigration

Kelsey Reinhardt

In the USCCB’s recent Special Pastoral Message, the bishops of the United States highlight the suffering inflicted…

The Classroom Heals the Wounds of Generations

Peter J. Leithart

“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children…

Still Life, Still Sacred

Andreas Lombard

Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…