Fargo (1996)
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, William H. Macy
Synopsis:
A car salesman in Minnesota fakes his wife's kidnapping in order to pocket the ransom money, but it all goes badly wrong.
Review:
A downbeat, realistic enough to be true, tale of human weakness, buoyed up by the comedy stemming from its affectionate observation of Norwegian ethnicity. Unlike most of its makers' films to date, considerably more than the sum of its parts: the stylistic ostentatiousness, the quirky characterisations are there, but there's a new asceticism and a touch of poignancy to it all.
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, William H. Macy
Synopsis:
A car salesman in Minnesota fakes his wife's kidnapping in order to pocket the ransom money, but it all goes badly wrong.
Review:
A downbeat, realistic enough to be true, tale of human weakness, buoyed up by the comedy stemming from its affectionate observation of Norwegian ethnicity. Unlike most of its makers' films to date, considerably more than the sum of its parts: the stylistic ostentatiousness, the quirky characterisations are there, but there's a new asceticism and a touch of poignancy to it all.
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, William H. Macy
Synopsis:
A car salesman in Minnesota fakes his wife's kidnapping in order to pocket the ransom money, but it all goes badly wrong.
Review:
A downbeat, realistic enough to be true, tale of human weakness, buoyed up by the comedy stemming from its affectionate observation of Norwegian ethnicity. Unlike most of its makers' films to date, considerably more than the sum of its parts: the stylistic ostentatiousness, the quirky characterisations are there, but there's a new asceticism and a touch of poignancy to it all.