Burn After Reading

On arriving at a top secret meeting at the CIA in Arlington, Virginia, analyst Osborne Cox is met with bad news: he has been dismissed. Back in his house in Georgetown, he decides to devote himself to a book of memoirs and to drink, but not necessarily in this order. His wife Katie is in a state of consternation, but not overmuch for, after all, she is having an affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married federal investigator and is planning to leave Cox. In the suburb in Washington D.C., Linda Litzke, an assistant in an academy can barely work thinking of plastic surgery and does not realize that Ted Treffon the gym manager is crazy about her. When a CD containing information for Cox`s book accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and her colleague, Chad Feldheimer, the two of them decide to take advantage of the situation. However, things get out of control and lead to a series of encounters that are amusing, in a shadowy way.

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