2008
This year it is good to be a Coen Brothers fan. First there was the excellent No Country for Old men wich turned the Coens into looking like gold merchants at the Oscars. That was a very serious crime tale.
Their new one is of a different sort and is in theatres now, and its called Burn After Reading. Anyone who remembers the noir impending-doom humor of Oh Brother, where art thou ? or Fargo, will love this one. Its a crazy tale of a forced-to-retire CIA man, his stuck-up wife and her secret lover, a treasury agent and a missing floppy disc, that falls into the hands of some Hardbodies employees, who then decide to try their luck as blackmailers (need i i say they fail miserably?) From there its a fast downwards spiral for all implicated. The casting is awesome, the jokes are funny and its one of those crazy stories we have seen before from two of todays best movie makers, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
Cast:
Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney and in a obscure and small but funny role, the king of funny supporting roles, Mr. J.K. Simmons
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