The Tragedy of Macbeth First Look - /FILM

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in the tale of corrupting ambition, and the flick has just been announced as the opening night film at the 59th New York Film Festival.

This image comes with the news that The Tragedy of Macbeth will make its World Premiere at the 59th New York Film Festival, where it will be the opening night film.

“The New York Film Festival is a place where I’ve been watching movies as an audience member and showing them as a filmmaker for almost 50 years,” said director Joel Coen in a statement.

“We can’t wait to welcome New York Film Festival audiences back to Lincoln Center this fall, and what a way to do that!” said Eugene Hernandez, director of the New York Film Festival.

“With Joel Coen, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington, and our friends at Apple and A24 on Opening Night at Alice Tully Hall, we’re setting the stage for a momentous return to our roots.

Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for the New York Film Festival, added: “We’re proud to open the festival with a film that immediately joins the ranks of the great screen Shakespeares.

Working with brilliant collaborators, including Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in stunning form, Joel Coen has made an inspired and urgent interpretation of an eternally relevant classic, a moral thriller that speaks directly to our time.”.

In meticulously world-weary performances, a strikingly inward Denzel Washington is the man who would be king, and an effortlessly Machiavellian Frances McDormand is his Lady, a couple driven to political assassination—and deranged by guilt—after the cunning prognostications of a trio of “weird sisters” (a virtuoso physical inhabitation by Kathryn Hunter).

While this is a story told many times before, the prospect of seeing Joel Coen tackle this material with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand is damned exciting. The Tragedy of Macbeth will screen at Alice Tully Hall on September 24, 2021