Romeo och Julia

William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

...doesn't feel dated. Aesthetically, it is just as stunning, part pastiche, part sincerely classical.

...Baz Luhrmann takes the audience on a unique ride (...) delivering a vision that is bold, brassy, hugely inventive and accessible and, in a strange way, just right.

They didn't merely look their parts, they embodied them in the freshness of their personalities...

Luhrmann's update of the timeless tale of forbidden love resonates with the angst of a post-Cobain generation armed to the teeth.

Who would have guessed that a modern-day Romeo and Juliet could be thispreeningly outrageous...