Sunday 20 January 2008

The River/No Country For Old Men

Films I've watched the last few days that I need to find the time to write about:

The River
dir. Jean Renoir
1951

Of it's time perhaps, but with surprisingly modern attitudes toward India. Traces of Renoir's famous humanism.

No Country For Old Men
dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen
2007

Absolutely wonderful! Great atmospheric Texas landscapes and a sense of a sort of wearisome doom falling over everything. A seen-it-all, resigned-to-fate morality, with Javier Bardem as a genuinely terrifying killer.

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