Back in Coen country

The darlings of art-house cinema return to familiar ground with their dark new comedy, Burn After Reading. That line of dialogue and the stage direction that follows could have been found in many of the 13 major movies created by the Coen brothers: black comedies such as Blood Simple, Barton Fink and Fargo, where invariably something does go horribly wrong. Here, however, the speaker is Joel Coen and the laughter... [read full story]