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Rather than basking in transient glamour, the Coens have focused on making films. And why not? They may be the most talented team working today. A string of successes including the wild "Raising Arizona," the brilliant "Miller's Crossing" and the endearing "Barton Fink" ended recently with a near miss, "The Hudsucker Proxy." After that film, which required a huge budget (by Coen standards) and lots of sound stage shooting, it is no wonder that they opted for a smaller film like "Fargo...
...secondary characters, primarily the parents of both girls, are flat eccentrics, reminiscent of Joel and Ethan Coen creations in "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink." The pansy college professor, the dissatisfied society wife, and others alternately plague their difficult daughters and provide a fairy-tale-gone-wrong background--Pauline's parents, it turns out, were never married, and Juliet's parents are getting a divorce. Pauline's mother, designated victim, is less easy to write off, and it is precisely her authenticity which makes the eventual crime so terrible...
...Trier will never be nailed on that rap. He passionately promotes himself and European movies. At last year's Cannes festival, when this film lost out to the Hollywood comedy Barton Fink, Von Trier threw a snit fit, angrily claiming that his movie was bolder and better. He was right. Zentropa plunders the film vocabulary -- back projection and superimposition, black-and-white with shrieks of color -- to anchor its weirdness in classical technique. The legerdemain reminds you of the artificial nature of movies even as it draws you back to the era when pictures seduced the audience into a communal...
...Barton Fink...
...Fink said that no evidence suggested thatKenyon "conducted himself in an unethical orfraudulent manner" as the study's principalinvestigator...