No Country for Old Men
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Film Description
A stash of dead bodies? A hoarde of heroin? More than $2 million in cash? This is a Coen brothers movie, so violence and mayhem is bound to ensue. Grittier and nastier than their recent fare, No Country for Old Men is shot through with the brother's trademark dark humour, and features an outstanding performance from Javier Bardem.
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DVD Extras
The Making of No Country for Old Men; Working with the Coens; Diary of a Country Sheriff.
Technical Details
| Certificate |
15 |
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Length |
118 mins
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PARA |
| Cat No |
PHE9428 |
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Format |
DVD |
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Colour |
| Region | 2 |
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Review by Mike McCahill
on 6th May 2008
The winner of four Oscars (including
Best Picture), the Coen brothers’
adaptation of the Cormac
McCarthy novel is a stark, grippingly
unpredictable existential chase
movie. Its antagonists are three men who
have lost their bearings in the world and
have to follow each other across harsh,
unsparing Tex-Mex landscapes. Leading
the way is blue-collared Llewelyn Moss,
clutching the millions of dollars he stumbled
upon at the scene of a botched drug
deal; ingenious sadist Anton Chigurh
(Javier Bardem) is on his tail and wants the
money back. Trailing the pair is a lawman,
days away from retiring, albeit from a job
he no longer knows what to make of.
After a run of broad comedies, the Coens
have remembered – for perhaps the first
time since Blood Simple – that suspense
is all in the detail: the bleeps of a tracking
device, the shadows of feet under a door,
the distended ring of a telephone in an otherwise
deathly silent room. On a technical
level alone, the film is extraordinary. For
100 of its 120 minutes, No Country for
Old Men is constructed as one set-piece
after the next, a dynamic pursuit from one
corner of the screen to another.
Putting flesh on these pared-down plot
mechanics are an interesting, left-of-centre
cast. Josh Brolin nails precisely the right
mix of sympathetic working-man desperation
and pig-headed alpha male stupidity
as Moss, while Bardem, the Supporting
Actor Oscar winner, summons up pure evil
without ever seeming cartoonish.
Heated debate rages over the ruminative
final frames, true as they are to both
McCarthy’s original vision and the Coens’
notion of a Godless universe. No
Country’s magnificently photographed universe
forms not only no country for the old,
but a place where there can be no justice,
divine or otherwise, for any man. This DVD
release provides the perfect opportunity for
further discussion – and a record of one of
the year’s crowning achievements in cinema,
by two consistently astonishing filmmakers.
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