The Man Who Wasn't There
(El hombre que nunca estuvo allí)
(USA-GB, 2001) [B/N, 116 m.].
Género: Drama criminal.
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Dirección: Joel Coen, Ethan Cohen (no acreditado).
Guión: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen.
Fotografía: Roger Deakins (B&W).
Música: Carter Burwell.
Producción: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (no acreditado), John Cameron, Robert Graf.
Productora: Good Machine / Gramercy Pictures / Mike Zoss Productions / The KL Line / Working Title Films.
Premios: 2001, Cannes: Mejor director.
Sinopsis: Verano de 1949. Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), es un introvertido barbero de un pueblecito al norte de California. Infeliz con la vida rutinaria que lleva, las sospechas de infidelidad por parte de su mujer, Doris (Frances McDormand), le dan la oportunidad de iniciar un chantaje que podría ayudarle a cambiar su apática existencia. Aclamada por la crítica y por su escaso público, una singular comedia de los hermanos Coen que mereció mejor resultado comercial. (FILMAFFINITY)
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"Arrastrado por la fuerza de McDorman y Thornton, está a punto de recomponer con cine de viva modernidad un viejo molde clásico (...) al final, como un tintero al que alargan la tinta echándole agua y agrisando su negrura, se viene abajo tras alcanzar algunas sorprendentes singularidades." (Ángel Fdez. Santos: Diario El País)
Una vida gris.La palabra mágica es "chantaje". Una carta anónima dirigida al amante y jefe de su esposa, reclamando una importante suma de dinero a cambio de su silencio, puede cambiar su suerte. Con las pasta conseguida través de este procedimiento, Ed piensa invertir en un negocio importante que acaba de pasar ante sus narices.
Los hermanos Coen pergeñan una película pequeña en apariencia, pero que funciona con ejemplar perfección. La construcción del personaje de Ed, patético náufrago existencial, está perfectamente sostenida por la interpretación del camaleónico Billy Bob Thornton, y por el recurso a una voz en off que nunca llega a cargar. Joel imprime un adecuado ritmo, acorde con la anodina vida de Ed. La elección de un glorioso blanco y negro para las imágenes y el acopañamiento musical de las sonatas de piano de Benethoven ayudan a componer una atmósfera de agotamiento vital, teñida de fatalismo. Las cosas no acaban de salir como uno quiere, vienen a decir los hermanos de Minnesota.
Los Coen se inspiran con toda claridad en la novela negra, sobre todo en James M. Cain, cuyos relatos más célebres, El cartero siempre llama dos veces y Perdición, juegan con elementos como el chantaje, la avaricia y la indidelidad (DeCine21).
AMG Sinopsis: Set in a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There stars Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane, a humble barber who suspects his hard-hearted and hard-drinking wife Doris (Frances McDormand) of having an affair with her boss (James Gandolfini). When a jocular stranger (Jon Polito) breezes into town hinting at the fortune to be made investing in an outlandish-sounding new invention called dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris ends up being blamed, landing her in the slammer and Ed at the mercy of blowhard big-city lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub). Filmed in black-and-white by three-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins, The Man Who Wasn't There was inspired by the seedy crime novels of James M. Cain, putting a distinctly Coen brothers' spin on the film noir tradition. Though spiked with their characteristic humor, its moody atmosphere hearkens back to the darker moments of Blood Simple and Fargo -- a marked departure from the high-spirited slapstick of O Brother Where Art Thou.
AMG Review: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have often been dogged by accusations that they're content to use their prodigious talent to do nothing more than celebrate their own cleverness, and that for all the snappy dialogue and visual flair, their films amount to cynical jokes at the expense of the dull-witted characters who populate them. The Man Who Wasn't There features striking cinematography and meticulous set design, both of which perfectly invoke the aura of film noir. Whether or not it's just another empty stylistic exercise, a noir homage with none of the genre's moral ambiguity or political subversiveness, it's still one of the Coen brothers' most involving explorations of self-delusion, irony, and fate. Billy Bob Thornton's Ed Crane is a man so nondescript that neighbors are always forgetting his name and no one seems to recognize him when he's not wearing his barber's smock. As he embarks on his poorly planned blackmail scheme, he even comes to see his invisibility as a kind of freedom, that is until the consequences of his actions begin to mount. Much like he did in Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan, Thornton endows his character with a tragic dimension that gives the film a weight it might not otherwise possess. His prolonged silences and blank stares suggest a deep sadness that no one around him seems to see or care about. The film's central idea, that one impulsive action can set in motion a web of fate that ultimately ensnares the hero, not only pays tribute to pulp novelists like James M. Cain and Jim Thompson, it's also an implicit tribute to the German director Fritz Lang, whose American noirs often revolved around that very theme. Indeed, The Man Who Wasn't There includes a number of subtle references to Lang. Tony Shalhoub's blustery attorney Freddy Riedenschneider's name resembles that of a Lang character, and he repeatedly talks about "this German guy named Werner, or was it Fritz," while bathed in cinematographer Roger Deakins' gorgeous, high-contrast Langian light (this isn't the first reference to Lang in the Coen brothers' oeuvre; Blood Simple quotes an image from Lang's Ministry of Fear: bullets piercing a door, creating intense shafts of light in a darkened room). While the film follows a tragic trajectory, the Coens can't resist leavening it with oddball humor. Frances McDormand plays Doris Crane as a boozy, high-camp parody of those classic tough-talking noir heroines, and there are a couple of red herring subplots involving UFOs and a Lolita-esque neighborhood girl (Scarlett Johansson) in whose budding musical career Ed takes an interest. Amusing in themselves, these diversions do little to advance the plot, yet don't detract from the film's final impact, which tempers Ed's doom with a hint of transcendence.
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