Roger Ebert has a policy of not reviewing films until their official release, but he apparently "admired" No Country for Old Men so much that he posted an article on his Chicago Sun-Times site about seeing it at Cannes.
While most of his article is actually a discussion of how much he loves Cormac McCarthy's novels, Ebert goes on to say that the movie version of NCFOM doesn't seem like a "Coen brothers film." Dig this, true believers:
"It was and it wasn't a 'Coen Brothers film.' It didn't have the deliberate quirkiness and flywheel plot, but it had the intelligence, the humor, the human nature pushed to extremes, the violence raised to the level of classical irony."
To me, Ebert's impression sounds like Blood Simple or Miller's Crossing, rather than the sad Coen films of late (named by BEM in a comment below, but whose titles will not be repeated here).
Additional news: Oprah Winfrey will be interviewing Cormac McCarthy for her show airing June 5. This will be McCarthy's first televised interview and only his third interview—ever—since he began publishing in 1966.
If anyone needs me, I'll be breathing into a paper bag for awhile, just until my head stops swimming.
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