Plot
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
Cast
as Romeo
as Juliet
as Benvolio
as Mercutio
as Tybalt
as Fernando Capulet
as Paris
as Alcide Montague
as Nancy
as Captain Prince
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Reviews
The classic Romeo and Juliet tale is given a modern spin in “R#J,” an inventive but irritating film from director Carey Williams. The movie is too drawn-out (especially the painfully prolonged ending), and the gimmick of telling the story entirely through social media and smartphone screens doesn’t take long to become annoying. You know the plot of the world’s most famous love story, and the f…