Othello
by Oliver Parker
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Actor: Ir?ne Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Maloney, Nathaniel ParkerDirector: Oliver Parker
Brand: FISHBURNE,LAURENCE
Cinematographer: David Johnson
Writer: Oliver Parker
Editor: Tony Lawson
Producer: David Barron
Producer: Jonathan Olsberg
Producer: Luc Roeg
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Writer/Director Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband) adapts Shakespeare's towering tragedy of passion and jealousy with shattering performances by Kenneth Branagh (Iago), Irene Jacob (Desdemona) and Laurence Fishburne as the title-role warrior who ruled armies but not his own heart.Running Time: 125 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R Age:?053939253023 UPC:?053
Movie Reviews of Othello
Movie Review: Branaugh's Othello Rocks
Summary: 4 Stars
Without losing the Elizabethean venacular, this version of Othello rocks. The actors have the Shakespearean language roll off their tongues as smoothly as if they were reciting "Old KIng Cole." Perfect for a high school classroom if you can get away with the R-rated fantasy scenes.
Summary of Othello
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of jealousy, deceit, conspiracy, & murder. Othello's great love for Desdemona proves to be too much to bear.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 18-JAN-2000
Media Type: DVD
Oliver Parker, a stage and film actor (Hellraiser), made his directorial debut with this scaled-back version of Shakespeare's play about the paranoid Moor, Othello (Laurence Fishburne), and his manipulative friend, Iago (Kenneth Branagh). Parker gets the story so lean he starts running a little short on the author's subtext, and if it's possible to overemphasize the banality of Iago's scheming and Othello's malleability, he does so. The director throws out what is universal in the story and makes it all seem merely ordinary, human, and unfortunate, which is the opposite of what watching Shakespeare should be. In the end, it's hard to care what these characters have done to one another. Branagh's Iago is a little flat and unfocused, while Fishburne is excellent as a quieter Othello than we're accustomed to. With Ir?ne Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. --Tom Keogh
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