Othello R

Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh star in Shakespeare's thrilling tale about the doomed marriage between a Moorish general and the daughter of a Venetian noble.
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  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: January 22, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1995
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,762
Rating: 3/4 -- An entertaining, respectful adaptation that plays like an erotic thriller with Elizabethan language. Full Review
TheMovieReport.com
Dec 5, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- Fishburne gives an amazingly chilling turn; when his Othello receives the Bad News about his lady love, Fishburne positively radiates homicide.
Needcoffee.com
Feb 6, 2004
Mr. Branagh's superb performance...guarantees this film an immediacy that any audience will understand.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- For sheer impact, this Othello can stand side-by-side with the versions brought to the screen by Orson Welles (as restored in 1992) and Lawrence Olivier. Full Review
ReelViews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 2/4 -- ... Will not give its viewers much of an idea of the Shakespeare play, and may inadvertently give them other ideas, about interracial love, that were not much on Shakespeare's mind. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Like its hero, Oliver Parker's Othello starts mightily -- resplendent and captivating -- before crumpling under the weight of misguided choices and self-delusion. Full Review
Independent on Sunday
Dec 6, 2017
Davies has done an admirable job of condensing the sprawling action.
Hollywood Reporter
Oct 15, 2002

Description by OLDIES.com:

Promote someone else to the rank of lieutenant? Over Iago's dead body! And more pointedly, over the dead bodies of nearly everyone ensnared in Iago's plot of revenge.

Jealousy, passion, misplaced trust: the themes of Shakespeare's towering tragedy permeate this fresh Othello from writer/director Oliver Parker. Kenneth Branagh (Iago), Irene Jacob (Desdemona) and Laurence Fishburne as the title-role warrior who ruled armies but not his own heart play the principals in this tale set in Renaissance Venice -- yet belonging to the ages. The Moor who "loved not wisely but too well" commands attention now and for generations to come.

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  • Sales Rank: 37,875
  • UPC: 883316690932
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