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Fri 11 Nov 2009"Nostalgia is a powerful thing"
It’s 25 years since Joel and Ethan Coen made their debut feature, Blood Simple, and the former cult film-makers are now Hollywood players with Academy Awards on the mantelpiece. Their new film, A Serious Man, has been described as “the picture you get to make after you’ve won an Oscar” and is set among the Minnesota Jewish community the brothers grew up in. But the awards change nothing, and this isn’t an autobiography, they tell DONALD CLARKE
ARTISTS OFTEN resist even the slightest suggestion that their latest film, book, poem or play may be autobiographical. Such a proposal – some might say “accusation” – implies, perhaps, that the piece has been partly ghost-written by Real Life.
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