Archive for September, 2007
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While toute Canada was at “Fugitive Pieces” Thursday night, the officially sanctified Canadian opening film, the press all sneaked off to a screening of “No Country For Old Men,” Joel and Ethan Coen’s adaptation of the mesmerizing novel by Cormac McCarthy. And though there have been many other high points during the ensuing days of the Toronto International Film Festival, none has equaled that chilling, thrilling summit.
“No Country” does for chase movies what Picasso did for portraiture, investing them with a whole new geometry and a brutal beauty. When Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a longneck-loving good ol’ boy from West Texas, stumbles upon a desert full of corpses, drugs and money, he sets in motion one of the most relentless, remorseless killing machines the screen has ever beheld.
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