The Man Who Wasn't There
The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.
"...drift off to sleep, or the nearest bar, or somewhere, anywhere, but where he actually is. Which, by the..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov