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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Joel Coen / GB, FR, US, 2000 / 106 min.

A wild, over the top ride through 1930s Mississippi loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey. Three escaped convicts (George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro) take a hilarious trip through the United States’ political and musical myths.

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As we are accustomed to from the Coen Brothers, their wild comedy filmed in wide format, is replete with colourful characters and hilarious scenes and features a memorable soundtrack by T Bone Burnett with plenty of bluegrass, gospel and country. Vain Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney with hairnet) and his co-conspirators are on the run (Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro) trying to find the lost proceeds of a bank robbery whilst being hounded by a merciless cop.

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This movie contains scenes of violenceThis movie contains scenes of explicit discriminationPersons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains foul language

Director

Joel Coen

Production year

2000

Country

GB, FR, US

Original title

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Length

106 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NLD

Format

35mm

Part of

The Coen Brothers Complete

This summer will be dedicated to the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood’s most famous oddballs. Eye will screen most of their feature films as well as their short films and their solo output.

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