Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a gloomy and recognizable voice in contemporary American cinema, giving classic celluloid fans of very varied invoice: comedy, history, drama, romance … The treatment that this pair of learned cinephile slopes and genres.
His work contains a wide range of hilarious, sad, reflective, iconoclast, romantic and critical stories, and there are few works of his filmography in which all those attributes meet. When someone proclaims that a movie “is from the Coen”, every cinema lover knows exactly what to expect.
With his extravagant visual aesthetic, his no less disconcerting characters, spawning dialogues and always accompanying a great cast, his feature films are the object of worship by their own and strangers. Although their films have been financed and distributed by large studies, the COEN have managed to continue working as independent filmmakers without ever giving up their way of understanding this trade.
This anthology of biographical semblances, critical texts, cinematographic analysis and revealing interviews with their trustworthy collaborators – surveyed with a selection of images of their already extensive filmography and other curiosities – is the result of years of consecration to the passionate study of the work of such a prolific brotherhood. The film critic Adam Nayman, in addition to celebrating and dissecting the achievements of this unique contubernio, brings us closer to his work to draw, as he proclaims with the pomp that the occasion deserves, a great unified theory of What Nayman himself has called “Coentian.”
Title: The Coen Brothers Cinema
Autor: Adam Nayman
Translation: Juan Trejo
Pages: 336 pages
ISBN: 978-84-18404-67-2
PVP: 22 Euros
Publication: May 21, 2025
