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| Sunday 14th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House |
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No Country For Old Men
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
USA | 2007 | 122mins | 35mm | Colour
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No Country For Old Men is illuminated with Roger Deakins’ striking images of the desolate landscapes around the Tex-Mex border that are filled with blinding light, brooding skies and dark foreboding. Cormac McCarthy’s novel was set in 1980 but the film is never so explicit, setting a mood that is poised between the fatalism of post-World War Two film noir and the dusty, end-of-an-era feeling that permeates the best films of Sam Peckinpah.
The story follows the fate of Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a man who does the wrong thing for all the right reasons. Stumbling across the bloody aftermath of a drugs deal, he finds himself in the possession of over $2million in cash. He believes he can use the money to provide a better future for his wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) – if they live long enough to spend it. His fate lies in the hands of two men. Remorseless psychopath Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) recognises no moral boundaries and will stop at nothing to get his man or his money. He will decide if someone lives or dies on the toss of a coin. The side of the angels is represented by weary sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a man baffled by a world that seems to have lost all regard for decency and compassion.
A scorching blast of tense genre filmmaking shot through with rich veins of melancholy, down-home philosophy and dark, dark humour. Cormac McCarthy’s bracing and brilliant novel is gold for the Coen brothers. One of their very best films, a bloody classic of its type, destined for acclaim. - Variety
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