Bristol Cinema - No Country for Old Men * UPDATED *, Bristol, Somerset
23 January 2008: Bristol Cinema - No Country for Old Men * UPDATED *
The latest Coen Brothers film brings Cormac McCarthy's tough novel of violence, societal breakdown and masculine madness in 1980s Texas to life with a trio of career-defining performances: Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem.
*** LATEST UPDATE: This film appears to be doing very good business at the 'shed, so if you are planning on coming along it is probably best to book or at least check with the cinema before you set out ***
'Relentless in method, challenging in presentation, and unforgettable in execution, the Coen Brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel glimpses upon pure genius in its characters and suspenseful build. Boasting some of the finest performances of the year, the Coen's fantastically intricate thriller demands an astute mind and a perceptive eye to decipher the multi-layered parallels that lie in No Country for Old Men.'
'This movie makes Fargo look very light-hearted by comparison. It will not be a film that everyone can immediately embrace. I do think it will be a film that people will appreciate the more they think about it. The surface of the film is deceptively simple. This is much more than a clever genre film, like the Usual Suspects. There is no Tarantinoesque snarky irony to leaven the brutish and horrible realities of the violence for profit perpetrated in this fictional criminal underground. The maelstrom of violence depicted in the film is larger than the work itself. The film activates the issue, but does not seek to contain it. The enigmatic and open-ended narrative provides no reassurances that everything will be all right.'
'This movie is a masterful evocation of time, place, character, moral choices, immoral certainties, human nature and fate. It is also, in the photography by Roger Deakins, the editing by the Coens and the music by Carter Burwell, startlingly beautiful, stark and lonely. ... the movie demonstrates how pitiful ordinary human feelings are in the face of implacable injustice. The movie also loves some of its characters, and pities them, and has an ear for dialog not as it is spoken but as it is dreamed. Many of the scenes in "No Country for Old Men" are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. Another movie that made me feel that way was "Fargo." To make one such film is a miracle. Here is another.'
'Violent, poetic, gripping, thrilling and blackly funny: that'll be the Coens doing what they do best then.'
'If you want to see an intelligent, superbly acted, powerful, beautiful cinematic treat that will remind you of the true power of cinema see it, see it, see it. It's a masterpiece.'
See http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/ for more details.
Ticket Prices: £6.00 (concessions £4.50). Advance booking on [number available to members only] 100 (no booking fee).
NOTE: Booking for Watershed screenings is recommended as they DO sell out.
This screening starts at 8.40pm
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