Which 2015 British-French film tragedy based on William Shakespeare's play stars actor Patrick George Considine?
Paddy Considine Patrick George Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, filmmaker, and musician. He has played a number of dark, troubled, and morally or mentally ambiguous characters. Considine frequently collaborates with director Shane Meadows. He has starred in supporting roles in films such as "24 Hour Party People" (2002), "In America" (2003), "My Summer of Love" (2004), "Cinderella Man" (2005), "Hot Fuzz" (2007), "The Bourne Ultimatum" (2007), "The World's End" (2013) and "Macbeth" (2015), and leading roles in "A Room for Romeo Brass" (1999), "Dead Man's Shoes" (2004), "The Cry of the Owl" (2009), "Blitz" (2011), "Honour" (2014) and "The Girl With All The Gifts" (2016).
Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida ( ) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. The work has in recent years "stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate". Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters. However, several characteristic elements of the play (the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy, honour and love) have often been viewed as distinctly "modern," as in the following remarks on the play by author and literary scholar Joyce Carol Oates: