Life Bleeding into Art: Roman Polanski's Macbeth

Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy reveals a filmmaker responding to personal tragedy as well as a volatile social and political climate, writes Olivia Maria Harsan.

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