The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. Fusing the expressionistic black and white and hard-boiled poetry of classic noir with their own idiosyncratic feeling for sinister, surreal Americana, Joel and Ethan Coen craft an arresting vision of the cruelty of fate and the mystery of our place in the cosmos.

 

· United States, United Kingdom

· 2001

· 116 minutes

· Black & White

· 1.85:1

· English

· Spine #1301

 

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

· New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

· One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

· Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton

· New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott

· Archival interview with Deakins

· Short making-of documentary and deleted scenes

· English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

· PLUS: An essay by author Laura Lippman New cover by Marc Aspinall