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Top 10: Repeat Offenders in the Coen Bros. and Frances McDormand

Thanks to a wedding band on her finger she gets to acts out in her brother-in-law’s and husband’s feature films, and though she probably doesn’t have to go through the casting process like everyone else does would be underestimating what she can bring to a film character. Now in her 7th collab, Frances McDormand reminds viewers that aging gracefully is in the eye of the beholder (the one looking back at you in the mirror).

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 20, 2008

8. Burn After Reading

Comments: Thanks to a wedding band on her finger she gets to acts out in her brother-in-law’s and husband’s feature films, and though she probably doesn’t have to go through the casting process like everyone else does would be underestimating what she can bring to a film character. Now in her 7th collab, Frances McDormand reminds viewers that aging gracefully is in the eye of the beholder (the one looking back at you in the mirror).

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).