The Coen Brothers have came up with another cinematic gem. An ingenious mix between "Fargo" and "The Terminator", it's a stylistic tour-de-force about a cold-blooded killer (Javier Bardem) relentlessly pursuing a Texas hunter (Josh Brolin). A sort of modern Tex-Mex western, set on the both sides of the Rio Grande in a kind of no-man's-land separating rugged individualism from a nihilistic abyss. The film was named "Best Picture of the Year" by the National Board of Review (see here and here). John Podhoretz has an unfairly negative, but hilarious review of the film in Weekly Standard, calling the film "The Texas Highbrow Massacre"...
October 10, 2007
No Country For Old Men (2007) ****
The Coen Brothers have came up with another cinematic gem. An ingenious mix between "Fargo" and "The Terminator", it's a stylistic tour-de-force about a cold-blooded killer (Javier Bardem) relentlessly pursuing a Texas hunter (Josh Brolin). A sort of modern Tex-Mex western, set on the both sides of the Rio Grande in a kind of no-man's-land separating rugged individualism from a nihilistic abyss. The film was named "Best Picture of the Year" by the National Board of Review (see here and here). John Podhoretz has an unfairly negative, but hilarious review of the film in Weekly Standard, calling the film "The Texas Highbrow Massacre"...
