The Coen Brothers: behind the lens
Date: Thursday, September 18 to Sunday, September 28
Venue: Teatro MAMM
The Coen brothers’ gaze upon profoundly human, philosophical dramas, cloaked in careful stylism, mise-en-scène, and precision camera work, has illuminated stories that to this day continue to resonate in the imagination of cinephiles who have found in their films bold stylistic choices with complex, contradictory, and consequently, purely human characters. Stories that range from creative crises and self-destruction, the weight of bad decisions, resistance against a hostile world, finding meaning in the absurdity of life, and the reimagination of a Homeric tale adapted to the idiosyncrasies of the American South.
Five works by the Coen brothers arrive at our Theater with a cycle dedicated to their unmistakable cinema. A selection that brings together the relentless thriller No Country for Old Men, the icy irony of Fargo, the existential portrait of A Serious Man, the dreamlike darkness of Barton Fink, and the musical comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?. A journey through universes where the absurd and the profound coexist, revealing the ingenuity and narrative force of two of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema.
Joel Coen / 1991 / United States / 116 min.
In 1941, Barton Fink travels to Hollywood to write a screenplay about wrestler Wallace Berry. Once settled in the Hotel Earle, the screenwriter suffers an acute case of writer’s block. His next-door neighbor, a jovial insurance salesman, tries to help him, but a series of adverse circumstances make him feel increasingly unable to face his work.
Joel & Ethan Coen / 1996 / United States / 98 min.
A meek and timid man, married to a millionaire’s daughter who prevents him from enjoying her fortune, decides to hire two criminals to kidnap his wife in order to start his own business with the ransom money. But, through a series of chance circumstances, three brutal murders are added to the kidnapping, forcing the police to intervene.
Joel & Ethan Coen / 2009 / United States / 106 min.
American Midwest, 1967. Larry Gopnik is a physics professor who watches his life collapse overnight. He is a good man, a faithful and loving husband, a good father and a serious professor, but suddenly everything in his life starts to go wrong. His wife leaves him without explanation, and her lover convinces him to leave his house and move to a motel for the sake of the children. Moreover, his professional career is threatened when he begins to receive a series of anonymous letters with accusations against him.
Joel & Ethan Coen / 2007 / United States / 122 min.
In 1980, on the Texas border near the Rio Grande, Llewelyn Moss, an antelope hunter, discovers a group of men shot to death, a shipment of heroin and two million dollars in cash.
Joel & Ethan Coen / 2000 / United States / 93 min.
Everest Ulyssess McGill, a petty criminal, is arrested and sentenced to hard labor in the state of Mississippi. His difficulties adapting to the strict prison discipline lead him to devise an escape plan.
Ally: Ben & Frank
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