Romeo and Juliet

1968

Action / Drama / Romance

60
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 34584 34.6K

Please enable your VPN when downloading torrents

If you torrent without a VPN, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action!

Get Private VPN

Plot summary

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
May 29, 2016 at 06:28 AM

Top cast

Olivia Hussey as Juliet
Laurence Olivier as Narrator
Michael York as Tybalt
Bruce Robinson as Benvolio
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
996.99 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 18 min
Seeds 14
2.08 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 18 min
Seeds 29

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Philaura 10 / 10

The ULTIMATE love story on film - ever!

Exquisite. The beauty, the innocence, the undeniable - all consuming fire of first love portrayed to the hilt. Juliet's delicate grace was breathtaking. I was totally convinced by this young acting team that they were as in love as is humanly possible. One can smell and taste 14-15th century Italy while following the locations. The performers, everyone, are as genuinely sincere in their humor and passions as one could possible imagine, bringing to life Shakespere's words like I've never seen before.

I cry every time I see it - all the way through. Mr. Zeffrelli, you are the best.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 8 / 10

Juveniles playing juveniles

It took about five centuries for Shakespeare's signature play about young love to be filmed with teen lovers as Shakespeare wrote it. When Franco Zeffirelli got around to doing it as such it put all previous versions to shame. As good as MGM's version back in the studio system days with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, they now look arcane when viewing it today, taking nothing away from them as players.

Of course this is hard casting. You have to have extraordinarily good actors and charismatic at that for the big screen. What Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey didn't have in experience they make up for in charisma. And being British they're trained in the classics at an early age.

This film also gave a first big break for Michael York as Tybalt, a part that requires a lot of passion. You don't get more passionate than Basil Rathbone did in the Howard-Shearer version. But he's as arcane with the rest. York took it down a note or two and played him like a bully. I got the impression that York would be looking for fights if the Montagues and Capulets were bosom buddies.

Back in Master Will Shakespeare's day all the parts in the theater were men and there sure was no such thing as typecasting. As we got more sophisticated we demanded more. What Franco Zeffirelli did was now narrow it so that juveniles would be playing juveniles or at somewhat believable kids like the players at Beverly Hills 90210 in their 20s playing high school kids.

Romeo And Juliet got Oscars for cinematography and costume design and got a nomination for Best Picture and Franco Zeffirelli for Best director. Almost 50 years later it is still an impressive achievement.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 8 / 10

breaks the mold of stuffy Shakespeare plays

It's the classic tragic romance from Shakespeare of star-crossed lovers Romeo (Leonard Whiting) and Juliet (Olivia Hussey) from warring families of Montagues and Capulets of Verona. Director Franco Zeffirelli brings a luscious romanticism into material that truly deserves it. It's also most notable for the teenage leads which are closest to the characters' age yet. I remember it being shown in high school and everybody whooping it up when Hussey shows up with her ample bosoms in the balcony scene. That doesn't happen with Shakespeare. This movie takes the material out of the usual stuffy high school classroom and gives it real life. Whiting is a little overwhelmed and Hussey does some wide-eyed acting. Nevertheless, it has real energy and still eminently watchable.

Read more IMDb reviews

10 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment