Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.


Books with substantial mentioning of Fargo

Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig
The Coen Brothers and the comedy of democracy
Lanham, 2019

Adam Nayman
Coen brothers
New York, NY, 2018
pp. 98-108 info

Jeffrey Adams
The cinema of the Coen brothers, Hard-boiled entertainments
New York, 2015

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Jürgen Müller
Filme der 90er
Köln-London-Madrid-New York-Paris-Tokyo, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Beth A. Fhaner, Editor, Devra M. Sladics, Christopher P. Scanlon, and Terry Schell, Contributing Editors
Magill's Cinema Annual 1997, 16th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1996
Detroit; New York; Toronto; London, 1998

Articles on Fargo

Lizzie Francke, Hell Freezes Over, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 5 (May), 1996 pp. 24-27

Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret, Closer to Life than the Conventions of Cinema, in: William Rodney Allen (editor), The Coen Brothers, Jackson, Mississippi, 2006

David Bennun, This Is a True Story, in: William Rodney Allen (editor), The Coen Brothers, Jackson, Mississippi, 2006

Reviews

Kim Newman, Fargo, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 6 (June), 1996 pp. 40-41



Year: 1996
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0116282