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Engage the Enemy
Liars and lovers
INTOLERABLE CRUELTY:
Directed by
Joel Coen. Written by Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone, Ethan
Coen and Joel Coen. Story by Ramsey, Stone and John
Romano. Produced by Ethan Coen, Brian Grazer. Executive
producers, James Jacks, Sean Daniel. Cinematographer,
Roger Deakins. Production design, Leslie McDonald. Editor,
Roderick Jaynes. Costumes., Mary Zophres. Music, Carter
Burwell. Starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones.
With Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward
Herrmann, Richard Jenkins and Billy Bob Thornton.
Universal Pictures, 2003. PG-13. 100 minutes.
R
omantic Hollywood screwball
comedies from the 1930s is the
latest film genre to interest the
irrepressible Coen brothers, Joel and
Ethan. They tweaked the script for
Intolerable Cruelty, and their prints are all
over the evidence — double entendre,
double takes, sharp-edged witticisms,
unbridled greed, eccentric supporting
characters and self-absorbed leading char-
acters.
The film’s a contemporary tale set
among the upper registers of Beverly Hills
and Los Angeles society — the wealthy,
ruthless, competitive divorce lawyer,
Miles Massey (George Clooney), and the
scheming, gold-digger divorcee, Marylin
Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Miles is
quite taken with himself, even has a chal-
lenge-proof prenuptial agreement named
after him, but Marilyn is the smooth, ele-
gant queen of seduction and deception.
The film opens as TV show producer
Donovan Donaly (Geoffrey Rush) drives
through traffic snarls, singing along with
his music, going home early on a beautiful
day. But Donovan finds a strange van
parked in his driveway and his wife,
Bonnie (Stacey Travis) between the sheets
with the swimming pool cleaner (Jack
Kyle). Donaly is the aggrieved partner, but
Bonnie hires Massey, and she gets every-
thing.
Massey may be ethically challenged,
but he knows he’s met his match when he
takes the case of serial adulterer Rex
Rexroth (Edward Herrmann) and lays eyes
on his wife, Marilyn, for the first time.
Massey cannot pass a mirror without look-
ing lovingly at himself and checking his
white, white teeth and brilliant smile. But
Marilyn is so composed, so cool and self-
assured that she doesn’t even notice the
looks she attracts as she walks into
Massey’s office with her lawyer, Freddy
Bender (Richard Jenkins).
Once again, Massey wins the case at all
costs, in part because of the testimony of
an ostentatiously gay, European concierge,
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy
(Jonathan Hadary), who knew the beau-
teous Marilyn before she married Rexroth.
Another ace comic performance comes
from private investigator Gus Petch
(Cedric the Entertainer), whose profes-
sional impairment equals Massey’s and is
much funnier. Petch is as crass as Massey
is a dandy.
Massey and Marilyn have many more
moves before their dance is done, and I
would not spoil the enticing twists and
spins the Coens have in mind for you.
Between these two, falsity has no place,
but avarice is assumed. Miles’ motto is
“Struggle, challenge and the ultimate
destruction of your opponent — that’s
life.” He admires Marilyn because she’s
good, a real pro. She admires Miles for his
frankness and because he admires her.
Both get to play their games with her next
suitor, Howard D. Doyle (Billy Bob
Thornton), a rich, grinning Texan who
hasn’t got a lick of good sense.
Clooney gives Massey the class, the
élan that eluded the last Coen protagonist
he played, Ulysses Everett McGill in O
Brother Where Art Thou? But like McGill,
who was also narcissist, Massey becomes
a blithering fool when he falls for Marylin.
He doesn’t care about money, about win-
ning, about destroying his opponents any-
more. He’s not himself.
Massey delivers the message of love to
his fellow jaded lawyers at the National
Association of Matrimonial Attorneys,
Nationwide (NOMAN), and instead of
being booed offstage, he is congratulated,
given a standing ovation. Some weep.
This is when you know for sure you’re in
a Coen brothers film.
Now playing at Cinema World and
Cinemark, Intolerable Cruelty is surpris-
ingly sophisticated, quietly hilarious and
genuinely subtle. Highest recommenda-
tions.
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