Broken Hearts Club: Romeo + Juliet
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Broken Hearts Club: Romeo + Juliet
📅 Wednesday, September 9th | 🕗 8:00 PM | 📍 TicTic
Baz Luhrmann drops Shakespeare's original text - every "wherefore art thou," untouched - into gun-toting gangs, MTV cutting, and neon-lit "Verona Beach," with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the doomed teenagers caught between warring families. It shouldn't work as well as it does: fourteenth-century verse spoken over a soundtrack of Radiohead and Garbage, in a world of Hawaiian shirts and handguns instead of swords.
It split critics hard on release - some called it a stunt, others a genuinely bold reinvention - but two decades on, it's the version that introduced Shakespeare to a generation who'd otherwise never have picked it up voluntarily, and it made DiCaprio a star in the process. Love it or not, there's real craft under the chaos.
"Luhrmann, Danes, and DiCaprio place this Romeo and Juliet in capable hands." - James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"A tremendously bold vision." - David Stratton, The Movie Show
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/romeo-juliet/
📅 Wednesday, September 9th | 🕗 8:00 PM | 📍 TicTic
Baz Luhrmann drops Shakespeare's original text - every "wherefore art thou," untouched - into gun-toting gangs, MTV cutting, and neon-lit "Verona Beach," with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the doomed teenagers caught between warring families. It shouldn't work as well as it does: fourteenth-century verse spoken over a soundtrack of Radiohead and Garbage, in a world of Hawaiian shirts and handguns instead of swords.
It split critics hard on release - some called it a stunt, others a genuinely bold reinvention - but two decades on, it's the version that introduced Shakespeare to a generation who'd otherwise never have picked it up voluntarily, and it made DiCaprio a star in the process. Love it or not, there's real craft under the chaos.
"Luhrmann, Danes, and DiCaprio place this Romeo and Juliet in capable hands." - James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"A tremendously bold vision." - David Stratton, The Movie Show
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/romeo-juliet/
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Where is it happening?
TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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