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NEVER WAS A STORY OF MORE WHOA...
Unlike their doomed characters, DiCaprio and Danes went on to enjoy a bright future.
ROMEO + JULIET 12A
1996 OUT 12 FEBRUARY CINEMAS
From Ian McKellen’s Richard III to Kenneth Branagh’s starry, slavish adaps (Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet et al) the ’90s was a strong decade for Shakespearean cinema. Twenty-five years on, though, it is Baz Luhrmann’s radical take on the Bard’s romantic tragedy that still soars, elevated by its bold modern setting as well as by a central coupling that perfectly embodies its star-cross’d lovers’ impetuous and youthful ardour.