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A happy exception is Roman Polanski’s 1971 movie version of Macbeth, for my money by far the best Shakespeare film ever made. ... Macbeth himself, played by Jon Finch, is a handsome young warrior whose wife, played by Francesca Annis, has a delicate beauty rarely brought to the role of Lady Macbeth. ... Tynan died years ago, and Macbeth is probably the only Shakespeare play suited to Polanski’s talent for the macabre. ... ” Banquo is slaughtered with a broadaxe, and when his gruesome ghost, its face blanched and bloody, appears at Macbeth’s supper, you feel you’ve seen a real ghost for the first time.
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