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After seeing him dressed as a prisoner in the Coen brothers' funny comedy, "O Brother!", actor Tim Blake Nelson moves to the other side of the camera to present "Poisoned Labyrinth", a teenage drama. And if, together with George Clooney and John Turturro, he got lost in the ins and outs of a peculiar version of Homer's "Odyssey", this time Blake tries to adapt one of William Shakespeare's most famous dramas, "Othello", to the current era. to the big screen on more than one occasion by filmmakers like Orson Welles or Oliver Parker. Far from ancient Venice, this time, the version of the famous work chooses a contemporary American high school as its setting. There, a young black man named Odin is convinced by his best friend Hugo that his girlfriend is flirting with him. Of course, what Odin doesn't know is that Hugo is actually driven by his jealousy of him, envious of his luck. Little by little, the situation will get worse.





Tim Blake Nelson has already shot three other films as a director, "Kansas", "Eye of God" and "The Gray Zone", with Mira Sorvino, Harvey Keitel, David Arquette and Steve Buscemi. Not so well known, however, are the young people he has chosen for the film. Thus, the cast includes Mekhi Phifer, in the role of Odin, who we saw in the film about the famous black detective "Shaft"; Josh Hartnett, who is slowly making his way into the world of cinema with films like "The Faculty", "The Virgin Suicides", or his upcoming releases "Blow Dry", "Entanglements", "Pearl Harbor" or " Black Hawk Down"; and the Desdemona of this century, played by Julia Stiles, the actress who has conquered the public with the comedy "State and main" and who has several premieres in our country, such as Michael Almereyda's "Hamlet", alongside Ethan Hawke. And Shakespeare will always be in fashion.