‘Would you shop at a store called Unpainted Huffheins?’
A wild and raucous world away from their laconic desert-noir debut ‘Blood Simple’, the Coen brothers’ second outing sees them showcase their genius for creating jabbering arias of breakneck cartoon anarchy that never, ever threaten to tip over into ‘zaniness’. Baby-snatching may not strike you as the perfect trigger for comedy dynamite, but this is a film shot through with so much goofy charm and homespun warmth, and giddy with such an uncommon degree of cinematic zest that you just know that abducted blond munchkin Nathan Arizona Jr is in the safest of hands on his turbocharged odyssey through trailer-park Americana. A cracked and dusty gem that’s too often excluded from broadsheet rundowns of the Coens’ very best work. ALD
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