Romance & Violence

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 2003)

Brilliant. This movie was released when I was 16 and I found it as intoxicating as my mother found Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). This is an Australian Pride - the movie is completely Shakespeare but updated to perfection, romance & violence merged poetically. Knock out performances by Dash Mihok, Claire Danes and John Leguizamo to name a few.