Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
Dir: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
USA, 1984, English, 96mins, DCP
Cast: Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
The Coen’s ingenious debut feature catches all ‘red-handed’ – literally in blood – with this gritty noir tale of small-town eccentrics trapped in a web of murder, betrayal and double-cross. The formidable Frances McDormand gives the first glimpse of her daunting performance that later won three Oscars as the adulterous wife of a Texas bar owner, whose duplicitous hired gun sees a simple revenge story descend into a darkly comic procession of violent misunderstandings. Crafted with clever plot twists, dark humour and offbeat wackiness, this atypical thriller launched a filmmaking phenomenon that marked the Coens’ later gems.
Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize (US Dramatic)
9/9 (Sat): Film talk with Horace Chan
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Crimes and Misdemeanours – The Eccentric Cinema of the Coen Brothers
Full House 2023-09-09 (Sat)
14:30Full House 2023-09-24 (Sun)
19:00
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
K11 Art House
Broadway Hollywood
Hong Kong Film Archive
Festival Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema
M+ Cinema
Cine Moko
MOViE MOViE
The Metroplex
the sky
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Arts Centre Shouson Theatre
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
The HKFYG Jockey Club Media 21
CINE FAN ONLINE
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Assigned seating
Full House