O Brother Where Art Thou?

 O Brother Where Art Thou? 2000

• Director: Coen Brothers
• Seen by these directors: Hail Caesar, Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Paris je t’aime, Intolerable Cruelty, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Miller’s Crossing, Arizona Junior
• Based on Homer’s Odyssey
• Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• George Clooney – Hail Caesar, Tomorrowland, Gravity, The Descendants, Burn After Reading, Michael Clayton, Good Night and Good Luck, Intolerable Cruelty, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Solaris, The Perfect Storm
• John Turturro – God’s Pocket, Margo at the Wedding, Romance & Cigarettes, Secret Window, The Man Who Cried, Cradle Will Rock, The Big Lebowski, Clockers, Barton Fink, Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues, Do the Right Thing, Desperately Seeking Susan
• Tim Blake Nelson – American Violet, The Darwin Awards, Holes, The Good Girl, Hamlet,
• John Goodman - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Atomic Blonde, Kong Skull Island, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Inside Llewyn Davis, Dancing on the Edge, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Artist, My First Mister, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Sea of Love, Arizona Junior
• Holly Hunter – Top of the Lake, Nine Lives, Levity, Moonlight Mile, A Life Less Ordinary, The Piano, Arizona Junior
•  Why?  Remember it as being very good. Good cast.
• Seen: Once before. Now 11 February 2022 

The unlikely adventures of three escaped prisoners in the state of Mississippi during the Depression. It is based on Homer’s Odyssey, Coen brothers style. It’s absurd, no surprise there, but it’s not really funny. Mostly it’s sad. And it has an unpleasant tone of contempt for its characters which takes some of the fun out of watching it. Even though most of them deserve it.

I really detest this kind of music.

What are two Minnesotans doing making a film about the Deep South?

It’s not the masterpiece I remembered, nor is it the best Coen brothers film. 

3* of 5