An outstanding achievement by the best American Filmmakers of the nineties. Like most of the Cohen Brothers films, this gets better with repeated viewing. Outstanding shots of peoples expressions, pacing and tempo in conjunction with fantastic acting and an interesting story make this essential viewing for any student of film.
John Tuturro is at his best as Barton Fink, a pretentious writer from New York City who travels to Los Angeles to write for the pictures. The dialogue is quick and witty, the pacing and tempo are constantly switching from long drawn out scenes of relative silence, to people speaking quickly and loudly. The entire film is dreamy, or rather closer to a nightmare. This is one of the best black comedies of the nineties, but then again every film the Cohen brothers made in the nineties is one the best.
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