Strange bedfellows

Coriolanus

(2011)

Ralph Fiennes directed and starred in Shakepeare's story of the worst and angriest politician ever, whose war heroics could have made him a god in Rome at the price of a little humility toward the people. Instead, his pride earns him banishment that deepens his contempt and turns him traitor. An adamantine portrayal of the adamantine general, with Vanessa Redgrave scarily intense as Volumnia, his mother and primary love interest; Gerard Butler as Aufidius, his sworn enemy and secondary love interest; and the beautiful and ubiquitous Jessica Chastain as Virginius, his wife and tertiary love interest. Filmed mostly in Serbia and Montenegro.