The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Joel & Ethan Coen
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - Joel & Ethan Coen
I thought about what an undertaker had told me once - that your hair keeps growing, for a while anyway, after you die, and then it stops. I thought, "What keeps it growing? Is it like a plant in soil? What goes out of the soil? The soul? And when does the hair realize that it's gone?"
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Joel Coen, USA)
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Katherine Borowitz in The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2001)
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Jenkins. Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Cinematography: Roger Deakins. Production design: Dennis Gassner. Music: Carter Burwell.
The Man Who Wasn't There is a bit like a Twilight Zone episode written by James M. Cain. A barber (Billy Bob Thornton) works in a shop owned by his wife's brother (Michael Badalucco). She (Frances McDormand) has been unfaithful to him with her boss (James Gandolfini), so when a get-rich scheme is proposed to him, the barber tries to blackmail his wife's lover. Nothing goes quite right, however, and after calamity succeeds calamity, the barber is presented with what appears to be a solution to his problems. It comes, however, from a UFO that hovers overhead, and he rejects it. Perhaps only Joel and Ethan Coen could have accomplished this fusion of film noir and sci-fi with quite the success they achieve, thanks largely to a superb cast, the extraordinary black-and-white cinematography of Roger Deakins, and a score by Carter Burwell that blends unobtrusively with some melancholy-meditative excerpts from Beethoven's piano sonatas.
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Joel & Ethan Coen
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