Blood Simple
Joel and Ethan Coen's acclaimed debut feature is a crime noir thriller starring John Getz and Frances McDormand that took top prize at Sundance.
When the owner of a small-town Texas dive bar (Emmy-winner Dan Hedaya) learns that his wife (McDormand) is having affair with one of his employees (Getz), he hires a private investigator (M. Emmet Walsh) and devises a plot to have the couple murdered.
- Director:
- Joel CoenEthan Coen ('The Big Lebowski', 'Raising Arizona', 'True Grit')
- Writer:
- Joel CoenEthan Coen
- Cast:
- John GetzFrances McDormandDan HedayaM. Emmet WalshSamm-Art WilliamsDeborah NeumannRaquel GaviaSeñor Marco
Reviews & comments
Total Film
pressWith their 1984 directorial debut, the Coen brothers showed the surefootedness with which they would ease themselves into one genre after another, reworking each to fit their deadpan vision.
The New Yorker
pressIt isn't really about anything except making a commercial narrative movie outside the industry.
Salon
pressWatching this beautiful restoration of "Blood Simple" I was actually struck by how non-bleak it is, how much the strength of the film lies in images of beauty, defiance and survival.
Los Angeles Times
press"Blood Simple" becomes a dazzling comedie noire, a dynamic, virtuoso display by a couple of talented fledgling filmmakers who give the conventions of the genre such a thorough workout that the result is a movie that's fresh and exhilarating.
Total Film
pressWith their 1984 directorial debut, the Coen brothers showed the surefootedness with which they would ease themselves into one genre after another, reworking each to fit their deadpan vision.
The New Yorker
pressIt isn't really about anything except making a commercial narrative movie outside the industry.
Salon
pressWatching this beautiful restoration of "Blood Simple" I was actually struck by how non-bleak it is, how much the strength of the film lies in images of beauty, defiance and survival.
Los Angeles Times
press"Blood Simple" becomes a dazzling comedie noire, a dynamic, virtuoso display by a couple of talented fledgling filmmakers who give the conventions of the genre such a thorough workout that the result is a movie that's fresh and exhilarating.
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