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Fargo 25 years on – chilling, gripping, funny, brilliant
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Now rereleased for its 25th anniversary, Ethan and Joel Coenâs perfectly flavoured comedy-thriller Fargo has become an established classic noir. Or maybe noir-blanc, a tale of criminal wickedness and weakness in the vast, snowy-white landscapes of Minnesota and North Dakota. Since 1996, something in Fargoâs macabre black comedy â the Garrison-Keillor-meets-James-M-Cain approach â has proved fertile: it inseminated a streaming-TV property now spanning four seasons. But the original film now looks better than ever, and itâs down to its keeping the quirkiness relevant and in check (something the Coens maybe havenât always been able to achieve), and its brilliance in making the forces of law and order look as interesting and funny as the bad guys.
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It’s 25 years since Fargo – “a homespun murder story”, as it was then billed – premiered in Cannes. We think of it now as quintessential Coen Brothers, and part of the pantheon of great American crime movies. Belatedly, it spawned the spin-off TV series on FX in 2014, which has run by now to four seasons and counting.
If you asked the average filmgoer to put on a Minnesotan accent, there’s a sizeable chance they’d attempt an impression of Marge Gunderson, Frances McDormand’s pregnant cop, with her litany of “you betcha”s and “real good then”s and “oh yaah”s. Thanks to Marge and every one of its finely etched characters, Fargo is part of the cultural furniture at this point – as enshrin
Bottle Rocket and Fargo: How Wes Anderson and the Coen brothers brought ‘peak quirkiness’ to cinemas 25 years ago Ed Power © Provided by The Independent
Two movies, released two weeks apart, but connected by an almost overpowering quirkiness and a fascination with people on the fringes of society. On 21 February 1996 – a quarter of a century ago today – 26-year-old Wes Anderson’s feature length debut,
Bottle Rocket, tip-toed into some 30 cinemas around the United States. Just over a fortnight later, on 8 March, the Coen brothers put out their sixth film and their first mainstream hit,
.
That off-kilter sensibility – a wry laying bare of the absurdities that ripple through everyday life – is one of the qualities uniting the films. And it made them part of a wider 1990s trend. Independent cinema in America, having had its “Smells Like Teen Spirit” breakout moment with Quentin Tarantino’s
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