Gates of Eden - Couverture souple

“Often funny, sometimes disturbing...Mr. Coen has sounded the jagged dissonance of the American experience.” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times)

In Gates of Eden, the co-creator of such films as Fargo and Blood Simple delivers blackly humorous and often unsettling vignettes...All the Coen brother’s trademarks are here...funny...compelling stories.” (USA Today)

“A distincitive voice and an offbeat worldview...All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own--except it’s weirder, funnier, and better edited.” (New York Times Book Review)

“The discriminating viewer who enjoyed [Coen’s] distinctive and quirky films will like the equally unconventional Gates of Eden. Coen delights in juxtaposing tone, character, and settin to comic and chilling effect.” (Washington Post)

A hapless private investigator who loses his hearing after having one ear bitten off, a maverick weights-and-measures man who gets pulled into a sinister blackmailing scheme by a seductive Japanese woman, a college kid so desperate to avoid an office job that he tries to break into boxing and organized crime: the characters in Gates of Eden grapple with their place in the world, trying to comprehend what fate has placed before them. With these stories -- sometimes heart-felt, sometimes brutal, always wildly entertaining -- Ethan Coen delivers everything you would expect from such an original imagination.