John Goodman’s barrelhouse performance is very good. John Turturro as Barton Fink, a screenwriter with writer’s block and crumbling mental stateīarton Fink is the sort of film that one might imagine would result if David Lynch was let loose on a film noir remake of Day of the Locust (1975) – indeed, it is the film that one senses Stanley Kubrick wanted to make with The Shining (1980) but became sidetracked. The film has a claustrophobic ambience of cavernous, half-lit hotel lobbies, corridors that travel off into unnerving perspective, gloomily lit hotel rooms with oozing wallpaper and half-heard sounds coming through the walls, or camera shots that crawl down plugholes. The mysterious box, for instance, is suggested throughout as containing a severed head but is thrown away without ever being opened.Īnd in their willingness to bend the rules of the game, the Coen Brothers leave one with an atmosphere of weirdness that is hard to shake. It seems almost to want to be a thriller with its twist revelations, its lurking psycho, its body in the bed, its mystery box – but the Coen Brothers resolutely refuses to conform to the rules of the genre or let any of the elements jell into a thriller plot. Barton Fink made a clean sweep of the Prizes at Cannes, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.īarton Fink is a mesmerising puzzle. The Coen Brothers are a directing-producing-writing team who between them made such stylistically dazzling thrillers as Blood Simple (1983), Raising Arizona (1987), the critically acclaimed Fargo (1996), the hilariously offbeat The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and the cult The Big Lebowski (1998), along with the likes of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). This intensely weird thriller comes from the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan.
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