Barton Fink

Barton Fink is a 1991 film by Joel and Ethan Coen. Arguably the brothers' most enigmatic film to date, it tells the story of Barton Fink (John Turturro), a young, intense, and rather unlikeable writer of Social Realist plays in the early 1940s; his raison d'etre is to "create a theatre of the common man."

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1991 - Film - Joel and Ethan Coen - John Turturro - Social Realist - 1940s

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The Coens claim the film was inspired by an attack of writer's block they suffered whilst working on the screenplay for Miller's Crossing. Barton Fink won the Palme D'Or at Cannes.

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Writer's block - Miller's Crossing - Palme D'Or - Cannes

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