Fargo is up there with my favourite films of all time, I consider it to be the Coen's best film.I don't think the brothers will outdo themselves for a long time with this.
What sets this film apart from a lot of Hollywood films is the setting, it's not often we get a whole film set in a snowy, small-town place. The setting makes it possible for the film to have some amazing shots, a brilliant example is just after Jerry has been told that he won't be lent money, there is an extremely long shot that looks as if it has been done from a roof or something. We see Jerry walk across a carpark completely surrounded by snow.
I think the characters in the film are some of the most interesting I have seen. Frances McDormand plays the heavily pregnant police-woman Marge, she is obviously a good police-woman who calmly looks at dead bodies, but is also a family orientated woman who tries not to disturb her husband in the morning. Steve Buscemi plays the 'funny-lookin'' Carl who graduallly becomes more and more dranged towards the end of his part. Pete Stormare plays Gaere Gusmord who is fantasticly psychotic, the ruthless and unemotional values he portrays are brilliantly.
Fargo is one of the better Coen films and I highly rate it and would recomend watching it if only to see the excessively bloody scene where Buscemi is forced through a woodchipper.
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