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MILLER'S CROSSG, 30 YEARS LATER: REVISG THE COEN BROS' GAY IRISH GANGSTER EPIC
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We soon learn that Leo’s current squeeze is Verna Bernbm (Marcia Gay Harn), Bernie’s sister, which acunts for why he wants to protect him.
There’s also Leo’s girl, Verna (Marcia Gay Harn), who’s also Tom’s girl, and her slippery, double-alg brother Bernie Bernbm (John Turturro). For most of the movie I was nvced that Tom's schemg (to rep: he shags the girl his mob boss and bt mate lov, fs up, gets beaten up – repeatedly – swch allegiance to a rival boss, engeers his murr, kills the girl's brother, swch back, but still los the girl and his mate) was motivated by his love for Marcia Gay Harn's Verna.
The Hopperque visuals of cematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, majtilly elegiac sre by Carter Burwell, and vivid supportg performanc om John Turturro and Marcia Gay Harn e together a slice of pulp perfectn that crackl wh sardonic w while plumbg existential qutns about ee will and our own terrifyg pacy for evil. 1 surround soundtrack mix, prented DTS-HD Master AudNew nversatn between thor Megan Abbott and the Coens about film noir and hard-boiled crime fictnNew terview wh actors Gabriel Byrne and John Turturro, morated by AbbottInterviews om 1990 wh Byrne, Turturro, and actors Marcia Gay Harn and Jon PoloNew terviews wh Sonnenfeld, poser Carter Burwell, mic edor Todd Kasow, and productn signer Dennis GassnerEnglish subtl for the af and hard of heargPLUS: An say by film cric Glenn Kenny. Marcia Gay Harn.