Romeo & Juliet (Carlo Carlei, 2013)
A period Verona, Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth, and a trimmed text.
A straight, good-looking period version for an audience that has not seen one before.
You want the play in period with a recent cast, told straight for someone meeting it for the first time.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the period setting and the plot.
Changes: the length. Julian Fellowes’s screenplay trims the play to under two hours.
Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth, with Damian Lewis and Natascha McElhone as the Capulets. Julian Fellowes wrote the screenplay, trimming the play to under two hours.
Whose story is it?
the lovers’, with Damian Lewis as Lord Capulet and Natascha McElhone as Lady Capulet.
How much time does it ask?
A feature, 1 hour 58 minutes. Rated PG-13.
Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Natascha McElhone.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More ways into Verona: Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) · Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) · William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)