As an extra-curricular Renaissance seminar today we watched Revengers Tragedy (I really want to put an apostrophe in there, but apparently there isn't one in the film, though there is in the play). It's a futuristic adaptation of a Renaissance play, starring Christopher Ecclestone and Eddie Izzard.

It is amazing. Ecclestone's performance is just fantastic as Vindici, the guy seeking revenge, and the Duke's whole clan of fighting sons (led by Izzard) are bizarrely wonderful. It's such a stylised piece it's difficult to draw comparisons, but I'm blown away by it. It's dark and violent, but it's also frequently very funny - and Ecclestone dances expertly along the line of 'is this funny or just disturbing?'. Not to everyone's taste, obviously, but I thought it was outstanding.

I've just ordered it from amazon. After a few more viewings perhaps my praise will be more coherent. It's just so different from anything I've seen that I don't quite have a handle on it.