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No Country for Old Men, 2007
English, Spanish
USA
Profile of No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men can be described as bleak, tense, and gloomy. The plot revolves around a violence spree, an uninhibited rivalry, and tracking someone down. The main genres are drama, thriller, and crime. In terms of style, No Country for Old Men is neo-noir, includes a voice over, and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. No Country for Old Men is located in Mexico and Texas. It takes place in the 1980s. It is based on a book. No Country for Old Men has received attention for being an Oscar winner, a blockbuster, and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of No Country for Old Men
With No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers have found a perfect match in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. Their adaptation of McCarthy's praised novel is a staggering masterpiece. In this almost impossibly faithful adaptation, the film takes place in a small Texas border town in 1980. Sheriff Bell (a never-been-better Tommy Lee Jones) has ruled the land for years without the use of a gun, but a new brand of reckless lawlessness has taken over his town. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is an innocent Everyman with a devoted wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), but when he stumbles across a drug deal gone deadly and finds two million dollars, he's determined to keep it for himself. There's only one problem. He's being pursued by one of the most amoral, evil psychopaths that the big screen has ever seen. Wearing an absurd haircut and brandishing a pressurized weapon that's used to murder cattle, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) creeps forward on his mission to track Moss down and return the money to its rightful owners to save his own skin. As the tension mounts, the body count begins to rise, confirming Sheriff Bell's inability to battle this new wave of modern brutality.
The most striking thing about the Coen Brothers' thriller is their masterly use of silence to create an almost unbearable level of tension. Cinematographer Roger Deakins is once again at the top of his game, beautifully capturing this stark and lonely world. The well-rounded cast is clearly excited to be a part of such a stellar production--particularly Bardem, whose Chigurh is a freakishly mysterious monster, and is certain to haunt viewers long after the final credit has rolled. In a career filled with striking achievements, this might very well be the Coen Brothers' finest. It is filmmaking at its best.
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| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 November 2007 |
| Runtime: | 122 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
as Anton Chigurh
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
No Country for Old Men is purgatory for the squeamish and the easily spooked. For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- it’s pure heaven.
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- by: A.O. Scott
Variety
A scorching blast of tense genre filmmaking shot through with rich veins of melancholy, down-home philosophy and dark, dark humor, No Country for Old Men reps a superior match of source material and filmmaking talent.
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- by: Todd McCarthy
Users Reviews
Winner of the 2008 academy award for best picture,No Country is faithful to its source as an almost word for word adaptation of the original McCarthy novel.Taking place in Texas with characters as big as the state itself,this masterpiece is a hunt...
- 14.July.2010
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- by: Turner
- Turner rated this movie
10/10Must See
While perhaps too slow-paced for some, No Country For Old Men is a masterful film, featuring some of the tensest moments in recent cinema history. Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, and especially Javier Bardem as the singularly obsessive and frightening...
- 27.February.2010
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- by: S.
- S. rated this movie9/10Amazing
