Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading, a comedy thriller from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski), is world-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival.

At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Va., analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.

Elsewhere in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym’s manager Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men.

A Focus Features presentation in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media of a Working Title production. Burn After Reading. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt. Casting by Ellen Chenoweth. Music by Carter Burwell. Costume Designer, Mary Zophres. Production Designer, Jess Gonchor. Edited by Roderick Jaynes. Director of Photography, Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, A.M.C. Executive Producers, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robert Graf. Written, Produced and Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. A Focus Features Release.


Distributor: Golden Scene Company Limited

Release date: 13 Nov 2008

Category: IIB

Duration: 96 mins

Cinemas:
1) AMC Festival Walk
2) AMC Pacific Place
3) Broadway-Cinematheque
4) Palace IFC
5) Broadway-Cyberport
6) Broadway-Olympian City
7) Broadway-Mongkok
8) Palace APM
9) Broadway-Tsuen Wan
10) Broadway-Kwai Fong
11) UA-Times Square
12) UA-Langham Place
13) UA-Cityplaza
14) GH-Mongkok
15) GH-Hollywood
16) Golden Gateway
17) The Grand
18) MCL-Telford