No Country for Old Men

Set in 1980, the film is built around a botched drug deal that a brash and not-so-smart hunter stumbles across in the desert. As everyone is left dead, Moss reaps the rewards: a suitcase stuffed full of cash. But he is fully aware that someone will come looking for the money. That someone arrives very quickly: an inexorable beast of a man who shows no emotion, fear or remorse. Anton Chigurh is a relentless bulldozer who simply removes anything and anyone that stands in his way. The law, incorporated into the person of local sheriff, Ed Tom Bell is only one of the obstacles in Chigurh’ path. His bigger problem is Moss, who quickly comes to understand that to stay one step in front of his pursuer will mean summoning all his reserves of guile and imagination. What ensues is a cat-and-mouse chase that escalates into a fight to the death between a cougar and a grizzly : one trying to recover his ill.

Joel Coen was born in Minneapolis, 1957, three years before his brother Ethan, scriptwriter and producer. With Joel directing and Ethan writing the screenplay, they made Blood Simple (1984), first shown in Brazil at the 9th Mostra and then screened again at the 28th Mostra. The brothers also wrote and directed Miller’s Crossing (1990, 14th Mostra); Barton Fink (1991), winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes; Fargo (1996), The Great Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, 24th Mostra), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001); No Country for Old Men (2007, Closing Night of the 31st Mostra); Burn After Reading (2008, 32nd Mostra), A Serious Man (2009) and True Grit (2010). Inside Llewyn Davis, their 16th feature film, won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA