The Coen Brothers Story

Joel and Ethan Coen, known collectively as the Coen brothers, have created their own unique genre in the world of cinema. Their highly idiosyncratic films form a cinematic universe with its own morals and rules. It bears an unsettling resemblance to their homeland, America, but is not quite the same. This documentary explores their careers and attempts to answer the question that so many have asked: how do they do it?

Their chameleon-like talent has reinvented every genre, including thrillers, comedies, tragedies, westerns and musicals, and made them their own. The documentary reveals how their shared childhood fantasies and their sense of alienation from American life gave rise to this unique vision. It also reveals how they were influenced by the golden age of Hollywood and created a new golden age of independent cinema themselves. In doing so, they retained their eccentric personalities, establishing them as two of the most unlikely creative minds ever to conquer Hollywood.

Follow the strange but brilliant journey that led the brothers there. It is a fascinating story about the collaboration of two people who sometimes seem like one person. It is a story as darkly comical as each of their films.