#FRANCES MCDORMAND BURN AFTER READING MOVIE#
His clammy air of superiority, Malkovich is an inspired choice for aĭisaffected spook, but the character recedes, and the movie could use
Plays as if it was great fun to make-maybe more fun than to see. Both films end on a note of resignation, but here it’s They reportedly wrote Burn After Reading and No CountryĪt the same time, back and forth, and Lordy did they let their juvenile They found a way to give this vision moral weight: God had left theįield chaos was ascendant stooges died awful, meaningless deaths. (TheĬoens’ most all-seeing protagonist, Billy Bob Thornton’s barber in The Man Who Wasn’t There, is also their most impotent.) In adapting Cormac McCarthy for their sublime No Country for Old Men, Title of the brothers’ debut feature spells out, blood simple. Humans act out of such narrow self-interest that they become, as the Slots neatly-perhaps too neatly-into the Coens’ body of work, in which Layered into a uniquely Coensian fruitcake. Tails, the Russian embassy-the espionage ingredients are all there, but Hidden cameras, spies, furtive break-ins, dark sedans on characters’ His assets and that somewhere nearby, a fortyish woman (McDormand)Ĭraves liposuction badly enough to betray her country with his secrets. Resolute sex with a government operative (Clooney) and plans to seize Tightening that his chill spouse (Tilda Swinton) is having brisk, Kennan, a personal friend of mine … ”), he is unaware that the net is On his yacht, guzzling gin and rambling into his recorder (“George Revenge! He will pen a memoir and expose the agency’s inner workings! The charge he’s a total lush is a mere pretense. He is being demoted, and he’s sure that the grounds are unsound, that Pound portentously the behind-the-clacking-shoes shot of the agent on
Satellite view of Earth to the corridors of Langley while the drums The opening, they nail the vocabulary: the camera that plunges from a Genre tropes nimbly they’re like birthday-party clowns for cinephiles. It’s basically a one-joke movie-thin stuff.
#FRANCES MCDORMAND BURN AFTER READING FULL#
No one but the audience gets the full (ridiculous) picture. Stooges, their motives childishly self-centered. Pair of fitness-club employees (Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt)-are puny The conspirators-a spurned CIAĪnalyst (John Malkovich), a sex-addict federal marshal (Clooney), and a Were Joel and Ethan Coen as baffled as the rest of us by the pyramid of conspiracies that was Syriana? Their new comedy, Burn After Reading,įeatures its star, George Clooney, in a burlesque of the genre: the
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