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The Coen Brothers re-team with George Clooney for this blackly comic film set in the world of a former spy. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton are along for the sure-to-be wild ride filled with the Coens' trademark humour.

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ProducerEthan Coen, Joel Coen

EAN5050582597264

eBay Product ID (ePID)70468213

Product Key Features

ActorBrad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, George Clooney, J.K. Simmons, Frances Mcdormand

Film/TV TitleBurn after Reading

DirectorEthan Coen, Joel Coen

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageEnglish\Spanish

Run Time92 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2009

FeaturesMaking-Of\Featurettes, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerCarter Burwell

ReviewsTime Out London - Indie-crossover darlings the Coen brothers have concocted another of their Hawkesian screwball quickies in which an ensemble of beautiful A-listers merrily play the fool. Already a hit in the US, æBurn After ReadingÆ is a snappy, confident, lightly satirical and stridently mischievous entertainment, Rolling Stone - Wildly funny [à] Pitt is dynamite [à] a potent comic creation, The Guardian - A tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy

Additional InformationThe Coen Brothers re-team with George Clooney for this blackly comic film set in the world of a former spy. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton are along for the sure-to-be wild ride filled with the Coens' trademark humour. With their overtly comedic follow-up BURN AFTER READING, the Coen Brothers return from the dark, dank recesses of the human psyche they traversed in their Oscar-winning NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. For those unfamiliar with the landscape of modern movie psychoanalysis, this puts the fraternal filmmakers square in the cruel, misanthropic, and farcical realm of their 1990s-era body of work, somewhere between the tragicomic crime thriller of FARGO and the disconnected noir-homage anti-storytelling of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with 2007's NO COUNTRY retroactively adding new nihilism-tinged dimensions of smart scepticism to the proceedings. In a more linear trajectory, BURN AFTER READING also stands as the third entry, after BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO, in what could be an unofficial Tragedy of Human Idiocy trilogy, wherein characters make the most outlandishly moronic moves to devastating consequences simply by adhering to true human behaviour. Indeed, Carter Burwell's emotionally weighty score, which washes over biting scenes of explosive, anesthetizing belly laughs, is very reminiscent of his FARGO work. BURN AFTER READING is ostensibly structured and propelled by a spy-thriller plotline involving a classified CD lost by a disgraced CIA spook and found by two simple gym employees. The CIA superior who learns of the film's events (always second-hand and sometimes along with the viewer) doesn't know what to make of it, and why would he? This is the first Coen film in almost 20 years not shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins, yet the 'new' guy, Emmanuel Lubezki (CHILDREN OF MEN), has created as visceral and emotionally fraught a high-definition cartoon as any since BARTON FINK.

Executive ProducerRobert Graf, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan

ScreenwriterEthan Coen, Joel Coen

Dubbing LanguagesSpanish

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleBurn After Reading

EditorRoderick Jaynes

Director of PhotographyEmmanuel Lubezki

Consumer AdviceContains strong language, sex references and brief bloody violence