Blood Simple: Director’s Cut

Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Joel and Ethan Coen’s thrilling debut feature, a stylish, imaginative and hard-boiled neo noir, marked their arrival as distinctive new cinematic voices. This new restoration has been overseen by the Coens and the film’s cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld. Immediately pulpy and cultish in feel, Blood Simple possesses all the characteristics that propelled the Coens to later success – razor-sharp dialogue; a predilection for lethal and futile violence; ironic, fatalistic humour; and an inventive focus on the tragicomic lives of idiosyncratic misfits.

Duration:
96 minutes

Languages:
English

Country of origin:
USA

Year of production:
1984