Othello [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Laurence Fishburne Kenneth Branagh Irène Jacob Nathaniel Parker Michael Maloney
	Video by:	Sony Pictures
	Sales Rank:	55410

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Actor(s):
Laurence Fishburne
Kenneth Branagh
Irène Jacob
Nathaniel Parker
Michael Maloney

Creators:
David Johnson (Cinematographer)
Oliver Parker (Writer)
Tony Lawson (Editor)
David Barron (Producer)
Jonathan Olsberg (Producer)
Luc Roeg (Producer)
William Shakespeare (Writer)

Director(s):
Oliver Parker

Recording label: Sony Pictures
EAN: 9786304099384
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 630409938X
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1997-02-04
Universal product code (UPC): 043396801431
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

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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 Irène Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. --Tom Keogh

Running time: 123 minutes