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BFI Thriller Season

Blood Simple: The Director’s Cut (18) 

Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA, 96mins, 1984

Showing Times:

• Thu 9 Nov: 8.30pm

Joel & Ethan Coen’s thrilling debut feature was a stylish, hard boiled neo-noir that heralded their arrival as distinctive cinema voices over three decades ago.

Marty, a rich and jealous man hires sleazy private investigator, M. Emmet Walsh to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover. But when, blood is involved nothing is simple.

Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of Coen brothers productions. Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general.

‘The film doesn’t change dramatically, but it’s fascinating to see the filmmakers return with a more mature eye to perfect past flaws, creating a more tightly and thoughtfully edited film that actually runs three minutes shorter than the original.’
THE INDEPENDENT 

Screening as part of BFI Thriller season, bringing the best of this edge of the seat genre with films from around the world and hidden gems ripe for discovery. 

????? ‘A gripping, drum-tight noir masterpiece’ 
THE GUARDIAN

 

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

With the support of the Independent Cinema Office and BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.