Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) from his county, a group of Mexican gangsters from the cartel, a bounty hunter (Woody Harrelson), and most memorably the killer Anton Chigurh (Bardem) – a kind or angel of death – are all after Moss and the money. Moss is pursued by many more people than he imagines. He tells his skeptical young wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), to leave town and stay with her mother as he goes out on the lam to elude those to whom the money belongs. Immediately deciding to keep this life-changing stash. Along with a pickup truck full of heroin, Moss finds a bag filled with two million dollars. No Country stars Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, a welder who stumbles upon a group of vehicles filled with and surrounded by the corpses of Mexican narco-traffickers and their dogs while out hunting deer.
Roger Deakins shoots the dusty West Texas landscape so that is reduced down to bands of color – beige, blue, yellow – a moving Rothko canvas. The film is very quiet the snappy Coen dialogue is notably absent. So it is no surprise that their film of No Country mirrors author Cormac McCarthy’s spare prose style. Their adaptations of film noir are based as much upon the hard-boiled fiction and crackling dialogue of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the classic noir films. 1 Indeed, one of the most underappreciated aspects of their work is its literary quality. But looking more closely at the film, and in light of the movies that the Coens have made since, No Country fits very comfortably into the Brothers’ filmographic style, subject matter and theme.įor all of the references in their films, No Country and True Grit are the Coens’ only adaptations of novels. Coming after a pair of uneven broad comedies, The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty, the stark, stripped down, formally-controlled aesthetic of No Country, appeared to be a departure even from films like Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, Blood Simple, and The Man Who Wasn’t There, which were similarly grim and violent, but still contained their signature moments of absurd humor, references to older movies, and self-conscious pastiche of classic Hollywood genres. Although individual Coen films had received great critical acclaim, No Country seemed to mark what many critics saw as a new maturity in their work.
Javier Bardem picked up the Oscar for supporting actor. It won the brothers three Academy Awards: best picture, director, and adapted screenplay. No Country for Old Men is the Coen Brothers’ most celebrated film.
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