Ingeniously written film is incredibly cinematic - has long stretches of 'pure cinema' without any dialogue, just the highly complicit camera of the brilliant Roger Deakins - though is also peppered with distinctively dry dialogue particularly emanating from Tommy Lee Jones.
"It's a mess, ain't it sheriff?"
"If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here."
"We're looking for a man who recently drank milk" etc.
With Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson.
Very little music (Carter Burwell) adds to intensity.
Won Oscars for film, writers and directors, and Bardem, BAFTAs writers / directors / camera (film went to Atonement).
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