Romeo e Giulietta

This is actually a very interesting version of one of the greatest of all love tragedies. They have disposed of most of the verse of Shakespeare but strictly maintained the story with all its details, so this short film version "alla breve" almost presents the story like a documentary in admirable exactness, almost in neo-realistic style making the great drama a rather concise family chronicle, and all the actors are perfect, especially friar Laurence, and Romeo, (Geronimo Meynier in his last role) is almost like Alain Delon. The staging is perfect in convincing pre-renaissance settings (although in one of the scenes there is a world map including the New World, which hadn't been discovered yet, in something of a goof but a likeable one,) and very proper costumes. As an alternative to all the meticulous renderings of Shakespeare's play it is the best version before Zeffirelli's four years later.