Blood Simple

“GAG” Film Discussion Club at the Białystok Cultural Centre, within the Cinema Classics series, has the pleasure of inviting you to the screening of the directorial debut of the Coen brothers.

Blood Simple

April 24th, 2018, 6:30 PM
Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
tickets: 10 PLN (regular ticket), 7 PLN (discount ticket) – available at the Forum Cinema’s box office and on bilety.bok.bialystok.pl

BLOOD SIMPLE
USA 1984, 92′
dir. Joel Coen
cast: Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, John Getz, M. Emmet Walsh

In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty’s faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty’s employees. But Visser is no more up-front with Marty than with anyone else; he makes some slight modifications of the original plan so that it better serves his own best interests. After a surprise double-cross and the murder of one of the important players, matters spiral out of control, and the plot gyrates through a complicated string of darkly humorous events. False assumptions, guilt, and fear all lead to a frantic attempt to conceal evidence and the heart-pounding, irony-filled denouement. Blood Simple was re-released in the summer of 2000 with a digitally-remastered soundtrack and — at the Coens’ behest — a few minutes of dialogue trimmed.