99 mins |
Rated
R16 (Violence, offensive language & sex scenes.)
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh, John Getz, Dan Hedaya
A quiet, basically decent bartender (John Getz) gets involved with a married woman (Frances McDormand) whose husband (Dan Hedaya), the owner of the dive, is not so decent, and not so quiet. The jilted, angry spouse takes action, hiring a sleazy hitman (M. Emmet Walsh) to ice them both. Complications ensue, but they are not the complications you'd most likely expect, and they certainly aren't staged in any way that resembles the familiar. Besides being so elegant in its twists and turns while at the same time doling out more than a few delicious surprises, Blood Simple's plot is staged with a combination of visual ferocity and restraint that yields one bravura sequence after another.
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A quiet, basically decent bartender (John Getz) gets involved with a married woman (Frances McDormand) whose husband (Dan Hedaya), the owner of the dive, is not so decent, and not so quiet. The jilted, angry spouse takes action, hiring a sleazy hitman (M. Emmet Walsh) to ice them both. Complications ensue, but they are not the complications you'd most likely expect, and they certainly aren't staged in any way that resembles the familiar. Besides being so elegant in its twists and turns while at the same time doling out more than a few delicious surprises, Blood Simple's plot is staged with a combination of visual ferocity and restraint that yields one bravura sequence after another.