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Joel And Ethan Coen: Raising Cain: The Man Who Wasn't There
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Sat Oct 10
7:30 pm
Joel And Ethan Coen: Raising Cain: The Man Who Wasn't There at Walker Art Center
Perhaps the most unfairly neglected—and one of the very best—films in the Coen Brothers oeuvre, The Man Who Wasn’t There synthesizes a lot of themes familiar from Coen movies past (Blood Simple,Miller’s Crossing, Fargo) and future (No Country For Old Men) while presenting them in a mature, subtle, hushed aesthetic that’s rare to find in their work. And it all starts with Billy Bob Thornton’s courageous minimalist turn as a barber who embarks on a typical Coen scheme gone wrong—here, a blackmail plot to raise seed money to get into the dry-cleaning business. Like William H. Macy's in Fargo, his crime is tied both to a pitifully minor dream of financial solvency and the marital discord that’s at the root of his miseries.
Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin Ave, Twin Cities, MN
Perhaps the most unfairly neglected—and one of the very best—films in the Coen Brothers oeuvre, The Man Who Wasn’t There synthesizes a lot of themes familiar from Coen movies past (Blood Simple,Miller’s Crossing, Fargo) and future (No Country For Old Men) while presenting them in a mature, subtle, hushed aesthetic that’s rare to find in their work. And it all starts with Billy Bob Thornton’s courageous minimalist turn as a barber who embarks on a typical Coen scheme gone wrong—here, a blackmail plot to raise seed money to get into the dry-cleaning business. Like William H. Macy's in Fargo, his crime is tied both to a pitifully minor dream of financial solvency and the marital discord that’s at the root of his miseries.
Updated 10/01/2009
