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Calpurnia

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Calpurnia (lived 1st century BC)

Roman third wife of Julius Caesar (married 59 BC), daughter of Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 58 BC). Calpurnia tried to dissuade Caesar from attending the Senate on the day he was assassinated; after his murder she transferred his money and papers to Mark Antony.



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The investment bankers hired architect, David Fratianne, to build out their space, based on the strength of his work for MTV and Calpurnia Group.
On the eve before his assassination, his wife Calpurnia dreamt that he had been murdered and begged him to stay at home the next day.
Director Edel mostly manages to coax his cast into naturalistic performances rather than stiffly stentorian oratory (the cast also features Christopher Walken as Cato, the man in the Senate most wary of dictatorial bravura, and Valeria Golino as Calpurnia, Caesar's lonely wife while he's off fighting his battles).
 
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