In preparation for TIFF, we have a lovely trailer for most of you all. It’s the kind of trailer that makes many of us die-hard fans all fuzzy and warm inside, one that is offered to us in lovely shades of red, and offers heart-felt performances and (if people do end up agreeing with me) will become another American film classic. I’m of course talking about the Coen bros.’ No Country for Old Men – a film that resembles in quality to what many deem as their best films to date: Blood Simple and Fargo.
To be released by Miramax Films this November, based on the Cormac McCarthy's novel “Old Men”, the story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law – in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) – can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers – in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) – the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.
To access the “red band” trailer click the movie poster image below!
