German director Robert Schwentke’s directorial career has swung in a few directions; he has made Hollywood actioners like Flightplan with Jodie Foster, the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife an…
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Schwentke describes his approach to updating Tacitus as “aggressive anachronism”. Nero is addressed as Mr. President and makes reference to his own stability as a leader, an opportunity for audiences to share a knowing snicker. Seneca describes his socialite visitor Cecilia, a witchy Geraldine Chaplin, as “a one-woman opiate crisis”: yes, even the ancients had their drug fiends. Nero, famous for fiddling while Rome burned, plays heavy metal on a lyre crossed with a rocker’s axe.
Unsurprisingly, he is also not the kind of public figure who can slip into obscurity; his retreat to the country is no more low-key than a holiday in the Hamptons. Thus we see him entertaining a few rich patrons with a satirical play – his version of theatre involving real murders, the better to lampoon the Emperor’s brutality – followed by dinner at what is described as the most desirable table in Rome.
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