No Country for Old Men (2007)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 122m
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Synopsis:
A Vietnam veteran in 1980s Texas happens upon the aftermath of a drug trafficking transaction gone wrong and, finding both drugs and money still in situ, makes off with the latter. Meanwhile a fixer sent by the importers leaves a wake of casual homicide behind him as he tracks the appropriated money, and a retiring sheriff in turn follows on behind, shaking his head at the state of his country.
Review:
Classic Coen brothers material on the face of it, reminiscent of Fargo, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona for a start, but based on a fairly distinguished novel. They, to use their words, have salvaged a darn good thriller from the book, but that is unduly modest, for despite its familiar ingredients the film has a mythic resonance and an absence of the jokeyness normally present in their work. The conclusion is particularly downbeat, with a final sequence as like something off the printed page as anything put on film.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 122m
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Synopsis:
A Vietnam veteran in 1980s Texas happens upon the aftermath of a drug trafficking transaction gone wrong and, finding both drugs and money still in situ, makes off with the latter. Meanwhile a fixer sent by the importers leaves a wake of casual homicide behind him as he tracks the appropriated money, and a retiring sheriff in turn follows on behind, shaking his head at the state of his country.
Review:
Classic Coen brothers material on the face of it, reminiscent of Fargo, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona for a start, but based on a fairly distinguished novel. They, to use their words, have salvaged a darn good thriller from the book, but that is unduly modest, for despite its familiar ingredients the film has a mythic resonance and an absence of the jokeyness normally present in their work. The conclusion is particularly downbeat, with a final sequence as like something off the printed page as anything put on film.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 122m
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Synopsis:
A Vietnam veteran in 1980s Texas happens upon the aftermath of a drug trafficking transaction gone wrong and, finding both drugs and money still in situ, makes off with the latter. Meanwhile a fixer sent by the importers leaves a wake of casual homicide behind him as he tracks the appropriated money, and a retiring sheriff in turn follows on behind, shaking his head at the state of his country.
Review:
Classic Coen brothers material on the face of it, reminiscent of Fargo, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona for a start, but based on a fairly distinguished novel. They, to use their words, have salvaged a darn good thriller from the book, but that is unduly modest, for despite its familiar ingredients the film has a mythic resonance and an absence of the jokeyness normally present in their work. The conclusion is particularly downbeat, with a final sequence as like something off the printed page as anything put on film.