Probably the greatest of all neo-noirs and an absolute masterpiece of economical film-making, the Coen Brothers hit the ground running with "Blood Simple". This tale of jealousy, two-timing, double-cross and murder may have taken its plot from all the pulp fiction that came before but from the opening credits on, it just never lets up and it's still one of the cinema's greatest dubuts. John Getz and Frances McDormand are the illicit lovers, Dan Hedaya is the husband and an Oscar-worthy M. Emmet Walsh, the scumbag of a private investigator, (they are all superb), and nothing goes the way you expect it to for the characters or the audience. Even in view of all the Coens have done since, this is still a stunner.Sunday, 12 April 2020
BLOOD SIMPLE
Probably the greatest of all neo-noirs and an absolute masterpiece of economical film-making, the Coen Brothers hit the ground running with "Blood Simple". This tale of jealousy, two-timing, double-cross and murder may have taken its plot from all the pulp fiction that came before but from the opening credits on, it just never lets up and it's still one of the cinema's greatest dubuts. John Getz and Frances McDormand are the illicit lovers, Dan Hedaya is the husband and an Oscar-worthy M. Emmet Walsh, the scumbag of a private investigator, (they are all superb), and nothing goes the way you expect it to for the characters or the audience. Even in view of all the Coens have done since, this is still a stunner.
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