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Cast
- Giovanni ArcuriCesare
- Cosimo RegaCassio
- Salvatore StrianoBruto
- Antonio FrascaMarcantonio
- J. Dario BonettiDecio
- Vincenzo GalloLucio
Recommendations
- 100
Portland Oregonian
For a movie with such a brisk pace -- it clocks in at just 76 minutes -- Caesar Must Die has surprising depth, particularly when it comes to the strong performances by the actors, many of them Mafiosi serving time for drug trafficking and murder. - 83
The A.V. Club
In Caesar Must Die, the characters are both actor and audience, looking at themselves through the lens of a centuries-old fictionalization of history. - 80
NPR
The Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, have been blurring the line between reality and fiction in their films for six decades. - 80
The New Yorker
The result feels, like Shakespeare's play, at once ancient and dangerously new. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
In a scant hour and a quarter it enlarges your notion of what theater and cinema, what art itself, can do — it dissolves every boundary it meets. - 75
Slant Magazine
Deceptively modest on nearly all accounts, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die employs seemingly minor directorial contrivances to ruminate on a unique quarrel. - 70
Village Voice
Almost as much as the play itself, the rehearsals are staged; the inmates learning to act, then, are acting like inmates who are learning to act. This leads to some on-the-nose scenes in which they observe the parallels between the text and their own lives. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a looser, grittier film than their work of late, and while it’s more successful in the sequences of bold theatricality than in the faux-cinéma vérité of the surrounding scenes, the mix is nonetheless an interesting one.
