2007 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Josh Brolin Javier Bardem Tommy Lee Jones Woody Harrelson Kelly Macdonald Garret Dillahunt Tess Harper Barry Corbin Stephen Root Rodger Boyce Beth Grant Ana Reeder Kit Gwin Zach Hopkins Chip Love Eduardo Antonio Garcia Gene Jones Myk Watford Boots Southerland Kathy Lamkin Johnnie Hector Margaret Bowman Thomas Kopache Jason Douglas Doris Hargrave Rutherford Cravens Matthew Posey George Adelo Mathew Greer Show All…
No Country for Old Men - Non, ce pays n'est pas pour le vieil homme, Старикам здесь не место, 二百萬奪命奇案, Non e' un paese per vecchi
No Country for Old Men is an allegorical modern western that captures a country in transition, thus commenting on present day society and providing an almost nostalgic analysis of the nature of good and evil and the inescapable stranglehold of fate.
Sticking to most genre rules, only to pull out the rug from underneath you at the very end, No Country for Old Men together with There Will be Blood seem to best represent what the modern Western can be. They are almost polar opposites in how they approach what they try to say, but they're still sides of the same coin.
On a literal level the plot is very straightforward, carried by a host of intriguing characters and can…
I watched this with my dad and he laughed everytime Javier Bardem killed someone
this was my favorite movie as a 12 year old but my family had the parental controls installed on our tv because they didnt want me to watch family guy
i've called this movie 'there will be blood' more times than i've actually called it by it's real name
This is the first time I’ve re-watched the Coen classic since when it was first out in theatres. After re-watching The Man Who Wasn’t There with our neighbours a few weeks ago, I’ve been hankering to revisit what I consider their darkest film. Where the Coens other dark outings are lined with bone dry ironic humor, No Country for Old Men is all serious business.
The Coen trademark noir-esque elements of misbehaviour and consequences are here, but where nature and circumstance dictate the outcome in their other films, here, nature and circumstance is embodied in a character, Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardem is a force of nature wrapped up in a bad hairdo. The sheer weightiness he brings to Chigurh is…
