Carrie Mae Weems selects No Country for Old Men
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2007 / 122min / DCP
The devil rides out in 1980s West Texas in the Coens’ marvelously sustained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name, with Javier Bardem in the role of remorseless, curiously coiffured hitman Anton Chigurh (certainly one of the most unforgettable heavies in recent-ish American pictures), Josh Brolin as the poor schlep who’s stumbled across two million bucks that Chigurh’s on the trail of, and Tommy Lee Jones as the aging Terrell County Sheriff trying to make sense of a mounting body count in his jurisdiction. Terse, hard-bitten, utterly absorbing in its process-oriented straightforwardness and, in the final measure, suffused with an implacable sorrow.
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
Carrie Mae Weems is a widely influential American artist whose work gives voice to people whose stories have been silenced or ignored. Investigating history, identity, and power, she finds connections between personal experience and the larger structures and institutions that shape our lives.
Distributor: Paramount
Introduction by artist Carrie Mae Weems and Q&A with director Joel Coen on Friday, May 8th
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