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The Barber

Billy Bob Thornton (Actor), Frances McDormand (Actor), Joel Coen (Director), Rated:

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Format	NTSC, PAL, DVD
Contributor	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Michael Badalucco, Frances McDormand, Billy Bob Thornton, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	1 hour and 58 minutes

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French only Blu-Ray/Region All pressing.

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For all of its late-1940s cold war paranoia, pulp fiction dialogue, and frenzied greed, Joel and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There is their most cool and collected film since Blood Simple. An unassuming barber with a scheming wife (Frances McDormand) and a serious smoking habit, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is an onlooker to his own life, a ghostly presence set against a silver-toned film noir backdrop. Only when he decides to alter his fate by blackmailing his wife's lover (James Gandolfini) in order to invest with a traveling salesman (Jon Polito) touting the wave of the future--dry cleaning--do we begin to hear the full extent of Ed's understated, existential lament. As his lawyer (Tony Shalhoub) says in Ed's defense at his eventual trial for murder, "He is modern man." Thornton's deadpan eloquence and cinematographer Roger Deakins's precision lighting offer the perfect counterbalance to the requisite one-liners, plot twists, and false endings that have come to characterize recent Coen brothers films. Almost in spite of the obsessive cultural references (flying saucers, Nabokov's Lolita, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle), Ed Crane steps neatly from the fray as one of cinema's most memorably disenchanted characters. --Fionn Meade --Amazon.com

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.85 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, PAL, DVD
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 58 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 10, 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (DTS-HD 5.1), French (DTS-HD 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001FY2MKQ
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ France
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Annie Van Auken

"I was a ghost. I didn't see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber."

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2012

Set in 1950, the Coen brothers' THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (USA/UK-2001) is a modern film that comes as close to classic noir as any ever made.

Featuring subdued narration by the main character and inventively shadowed cinematography with many unusual angles and forced perspective, this is the story of a town barber (Billy Bob Thornton), a normally quiet man who murders in self-defense when his act of revenge, an anonymous blackmail scheme, goes awry and the victim (James Gandolfini) learns his identity.

A superb cast includes Frances McDormand as Billy Bob's cheating wife, Tony Shaloub playing the high-priced lawyer who is unable to defend her when she's wrongly charged with Gandolfini's murder, Michael Badalucco as the chatty owner of the barbershop where Thornton works, Jon Polito as a dry cleaning scam artist who inadvertantly sets the blackmail in motion by tempting Thornton to invest 10K, and Scarlett Johansson as a teen amateur pianist that Billy Bob unsuccessfully tries to mentor.

Recurring use of Beethoven's somber Pathetique piano sonata is ideal as background music to this relentlessly sad story. "The Man Who Wasn't There" is an atmospheric, introspective tale of ultimate tragedy that, like all great cinema, gets better with repeated viewings. Highest recommendation!

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D. Ostrov

Do not buy this French Blu-ray if you understand spoken English!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2013

The movie is five stars. But I want to emphasize a warning about the French Blu-Ray (labeled "The Barber" on the front cover.) You can either have the movie with dubbed French without subtitles or you can have it without dubbed French with forced subtitles. You cannot watch it in English without subtitles at the same time. If you speak English, expect to be annoyed and frustrated by this Blu Ray.

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Max & Pauline

Un des meilleurs films des Frères Coen

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on July 24, 2015

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Retour aux sources avec ce long métrage qui veut se la jouer authentique film des 50's, filmé en noir et blanc.

Le synopsis est dans la description du DVD :
Californie, été 1949. Parce qu'il s'ennuie ferme et que sa femme le trompe, Ed Crane, coiffeur de son état, décide de faire chanter l'amant de sa femme. Malheureusement, la chance n'est pas de son côté et Ed se retrouve entraîné dans la spirale infernale du crime...

La mise en scène est parfaite. De nos jours, les blockbusters doivent durer 1h30 top chrono. Ici, les frères Coen prennent le temps de poser les décors, il y a des longueurs, mais dans le bon sens du terme. ça sert vraiment le film.

Je le recommande aux côtés de "True Grit" ou "No Country For Old Men".

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Hector-Bzh

Dans la meilleure tradition du film noir, le film le plus abouti des frères Coen

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on March 12, 2017

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Un anti-héros désabusé, calme, impassible (assez passif, mais qui fait ce qu'il faut pour s'en sortir), magnifiquement interprêté par Billy Bob Thornton. Une intrigue qui mêle à la fois les ingrédients du film policier (ambiance film noir des années 50) et l'étude de moeurs, avec escrocs sans scrupules (du commercial itinérant et suant à grosses gouttes à l'avocat beau parleur et narcissique), femme infidèle et fraîche jeune fille moins naïve et innocente qu'il n'y paraît. La mise en scène est impeccable, les acteurs également. Un hommage au film noir, en plus corrosif.
Superbe image en noir et blanc.

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John

Pas aussi bien connu, mais l'un des meilleurs films de l'Coen

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on October 15, 2013

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Excusez-moi, mon français est médiocre. Ce commentaire est en anglais. J'ai acheté ce film chez Amazon France que ce Blu-ray n'est pas distribué aux Etats-Unis.

The English title for this film is "The Man Who Wasn't There." I am mystified why its French title, "The Barber," is different, although it is also appropriate if comparatively plain. Transfer from film to Blu-ray is excellent, both audio and video. It's a substantial improvement over the DVD release.

Typical of the Coen Brothers, this is another neo-noir film. It pays homage to the roman noir (hardboiled) 1930's - 40s' crime novels of James M. Cain. It goes back to the darker type of story found in "Blood Simple" and "Fargo." In this storyline, a quiet and humble barber, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), works in a barber shop owned by his brother-in-law (his wife's brother). Ed suspects his wife, Doris (Frances McDormand) of infidelity with her boss, "Big Dave" Brewster (James Gandolfini). Big Dave has told his barber, Ed, about money he has set aside to expand the family business while getting a haircut. When a sudden investment opportunity for the barber arises that needs $10k, Ed blackmails Doris' boss, Big Dave, for the money. This not only has the potential to make Ed rich if the investment works, it exacts some revenge on his wife's lover, Big Dave. However, Big Dave no longer has the funds for his family business expansion and he is angry about it. After Ed receives the blackmail money and hands it over for the investment, nothing happens the way he had originally planned. The situation goes from a simple plan to one with increasing complexity. His life and everyone else's around him falls apart. To give any greater detail would spoil the story. Nobody is innocent of wrongdoing and there is ultimately Karma at the end.

The cinematography is true to the film noir era (1930's - 50's). Even though it was shot in color, it was transferred to black and white in post production. Shots are mostly at eye level using normal lenses, large depth of field, and quarter lighting. The film was nominated for a "Best Cinematography" Academy Award (Oscar) but did not win. Joel Coen won "Best Director" at the 2001 Cannes FIlm Festival (sharing the award with David Lych for his film "Mulholland Drive"). Not as well known as other Coen Brothers films, The Barber (The Man Who Wasn't There) is an excellent film on par with the Coen's Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink.

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Roxane

satisfaction totale

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on June 5, 2015

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un très bon vendeur et un très, très bon film. Je recommande vivement l'un et l'autre !

Un héro mélancolique qui vit et meurt sans conviction avec en fond sonore la sonate "Au Clair de Lune" de Beethoven, merveilleusement
exécutée, qui passe et repasse en boucle.

Cette synchronie de l'image et du son est un véritable coup de génie

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mamytou

The Barber (double DVD)

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on October 17, 2016

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Suite à une information erronée sur le site, j'ai commandé ce double DVD, qui en fait ne contient pas la version couleur comme indiqué. Après avoir contacté le vendeur (fort compétent), j'ai appris que la version couleur de ce film extraordinaire n'existe que sur le triple DVD, que j'ai aussitôt commandé.

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