"An analyst for the CIA is let go, he goes to his home and decides to work on his memoirs and his drinking. His wife plans to leave him for a married man and hires a lawyer. Information is collected for the divorce but a disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad who try to exploit money from the CIA agent."Movie type: Comedy (Dark) Thriller - Like previous Coen Brothers films, "Burn After Reading" is a very strange story. Actually there are multiple stories that end up coming together in odd ways. There's almost no humor and the tone of the story is often dark.
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Script: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: John Malkovich (Osborne Cox), Brad Pitt (Chad Feldheimer), George Clooney (Harry Pfarrer), Frances McDormand (Linda Litzke)
Length: 1 hr. 36 min.
Reviews:
Jeffrey Westhoff: “Burn After Reading is part spy spoof and part rumination of middle-aged loneliness, which goes a long way to explain why its elements never cohere.”
Zack Haddad: “A roller coaster of emotions that will have you laughing one moment and gasping in shock the next.”
Janos Gereben: “Skip descriptions of the plot, reject self-righteous denunciations of smart skepticism and charming evil, go and wallow in life-affirming laughter.”
Source: cinemareview.com
26.11.2008