Total Film

BLOOD SIMPLE: DIRECTORS’ CUT

Out 6 OctOber

- Philip Kemp

With their 1984 directoria­l debut, the Coen brothers showed the surefooted­ness with which they would ease themselves into one genre after another, reworking each to fit their deadpan vision. Blood Simple (re-released in Coenapprov­ed 4K) gave devotees of ruthless black comedy cause to cheer, and offered M. Emmet Walsh, as its ultra-sleazy PI, the role of a lifetime.

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