A stunning film.
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09/26/08
Othello - The Lost Masterpiece (1952)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: This ragged take on Othello may take liberties with the source material, but Orson Welles' genius never fails to impress.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Long believed lost, this is the newly restored masterpiece of Orson Welles' 1952 classic based on the famous William Shakespeare play. Also includes a special introduction by his daughter Beatrice... [More]
Starring: Orson Welles, Micheal MacLiammoir, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote
Director: Orson Welles
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Reviews for Othello - The Lost Masterpiece
A marvelous, very un-stage-like and brisk adaptation that never compromises the spirit of its source.
06/18/08
Low-budget but visually stunning.
06/18/08
Top CriticThe visual rhetoric is synchronised with the verbal imagery: they hit sensory overload together.
06/18/08
Welles genius behind the camera brings one of the Bard's darkest plays to life.
06/18/08
Film is an impressive rendering of the Shakespearean tragedy.
06/18/08
Top CriticIndividual scenes are in an unrestrainedly operatic bravura style, and while the film succeeds visually, it ultimately fails as drama.
06/18/08
Top CriticFor all the liberties taken with the play, Orson Welles's 1952 independent feature may well be the greatest Shakespeare film.
04/06/07
Top CriticA folly perhaps, but a grand one.
04/06/07
Top CriticOne of the filmmaker's great masterpieces.
04/06/07
Top CriticOthello has been filmed numerous times, but never with such extraordinary visual grace and power.
10/06/06
Top CriticThe text of the original play has been slashed to its bare bones, with bravura cinematography and editing also helping make this a taut, visceral experience.
08/29/06
No review available.
08/27/05
Though made on the cheap, it has the rich arty look of an avant-garde Expressionist work that few big-budget films ever achieve so well.
06/24/05
There are flashes of brilliant suggestion in this tumbled, slurred, and helter-skelter film. But they add up to nothing substantial -- just a little Shakespeare and a lot of Welles.
05/12/05
Top CriticNo review available.
06/14/04
Noir drama without the usual suspects...dark, macabre and delightfully done.
10/17/03
Welles gives the Shakespeare classic a visceral punch that's often missing from theatrical adaptations.
09/24/03
Classic.
06/20/03
Any film student who hasn't seen this film has not completed his education. And for the rest of us, this Othello is a fascinating film with moments of great power.
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