Watched Ralph Fiennes's excellent film of Coriolanus over the last three days (in bits, that's all I can manage) in a bid to start seriously viewing what I've got on DVD. Fiennes is a predictably wonderful Martius, entirely convincing, but it's the performances of Vanessa Redgrave as our tragic hero's mum, and Brian Cox, gloriously subtle as Menenius, that steal the show.
Here's a thought: anyone who finds Coriolanus a compelling character given his, to say the least, glaring defects of character probably has major character defects of their own. But then I find him utterly compelling. Oh, hum.
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