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BFI / Sight and SoundUK

Kiss kiss bang bang: Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet

10.28

For the 30th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s visceral epic Romeo + Juliet, we republish José Arroyo’s essay on how the film turned Shakespeare into cinema. From our March 1997 issue.

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