Shakespeare's deadliest lie gets a sleek modern makeover with a gender-flipped Iago.
A general's marriage is destroyed when a vengeful lieutenant convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Acting
Allison Marie Volk's Iago owns every frame with venomous charm.
Direction
Kreuzriegler strips the tragedy to its raw psychological bones.
Writing
Modern dialogue that keeps Shakespeare's poison intact.
Director
Mikael Kreuzriegler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kreuzriegler relocates the tragedy to contemporary California, trading Venetian empire for tech-bro culture and cocktail bars.
Briggon Snow, credited only as 'Bar Patron,' improvised the drunken monologue that became the film's viral festival moment.
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