coen bros

The Coen brothers were one of the most interesting directors we have viewed in Art of Film with their wide range of movie genres. We watched Raising Arizona which was a kind of screwball comedy and No Country for Old Men which was a kind of dark thriller, which I particularly enjoyed. This seems to be a odd range of genres in of itself, but this becomes more intriguing when we add in Fargo which is almost a mix of the two, with its comedic characters but has a dark plot. This type of film seems to be manifested again in the Coen's new movie Burn After Reading with its dimwitted characters but criminal plot.