Burn After Reading, the next Coen brothers movie

The next film directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen promises! It will be presented at the Film Festival in Venice (the Venice Film Festival) on 27 August. Burn After Reading featuring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins. Here is a complete dossier including photos, interviews and the trailer.

At the headquarters of the CIA, Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) is a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately, he learns that it is grilled. Cox does not the new and returning home, at her home in Georgetown, to write his memoirs and drink. His wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton) is appalled but not particularly surprised: it maintains a liaison with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a police officer married, and she intends to leave her husband for it.

Meanwhile, a suburb of Washington DC, Linda Litzka (Frances McDormand), an employee fitness center Hardbodies can barely focus on his work. She is obsessed by his desire to be completely redo and confides his plans for plastic surgery to his colleague Chad Feldheim (Brad Pitt).

When a disk containing the research done by Cox Osborne to write his memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo is headed to exploit his discovery.

Joel Coen explains: "We have written this scenario as we adapt No Country for Old Men." His brother, Ethan Coen, added: "We had the idea to write roles for actors that we wanted to mix and we thought about George Clooney, Richard Jenkins, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt. We had already worked with them, with the exception of Brad Pitt and we thought it would be interesting to gather around a story. "

Joel says: "We had already shot twice with George and Richard and four times with Frances. Like Brad, John Malkovich is someone with whom we had never worked, but with whom we wanted to work for some time. So we wrote the role of John specially for him, and we had a lot of fun to do. "

"Despite the fact that the film takes place in Washington DC, is the story of people who are awfully stupid things completely idiotic, especially in matters of sex. What makes it even more interesting is that these are not even politicians! As soon as the Coen brothers called me, I knew he had to agree. After all, they will continue to provide the roles that n'imagine that we are able to interpret. "George Clooney

"It's 25 years that I work with Joel and Ethan. Their first film [Blood Simple] was my first film. I do not know why they make me do what they do to me. But it's always worth the trouble. "Frances McDormand

"I did not think my character would be a fool finished a mâcheur chewing gum, a Gatorade drinker, an increase in iPod whose brain is completely empty. I told Ethan and Joel: 'It is so stupid!' Well, he has a big heart. In fact, this role will break my career! (Laughs) "Brad Pitt

"Ozzie is so stupid that it was a pleasure to interpret - especially the scene where he turns. And then I spend a lot of time to shout and play the guy completely drunk. "John Malkovich

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Burn After Reading

Output: 12 September 2008 in North America - 10 December 2008 in France

Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins

Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen

Budget (estimated): n / a

Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen

Website: English