Caesar Must Die

MUST SEE: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die (Italy, 2012) - 2012BERic Golden Bear Winner. Now into their eighties, the Taviani brothers show with this remarkable, fresh and moving drama-documentary they have lost none of that mix of observational rigour and sympathy for the underdog that marked early films like Padre Padrone, their 1977 Palme d’Or winner. Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire) is a powerful prison drama about drama in prison: specifically, about a staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with a cast of prisoners from the high-security wing of Rome’s Rebibbia jail. 2012BERic, 2012NYFF, 2012SANSzp, 2013OE, 2013PALM. RATING: 8