Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Cast :

Brad Pitt as Chad Feldheimer
George Clooney as Harry Pfarrer
Tilda Swinton as Katie Cox
John Malkovich as Osbourne Cox
Frances McDormand as Linda Litzke
Richard Jenkins as Ted Treffon

English : 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.

Français : Alors qu'il travaille à l'écriture de ses mémoires, un ex-agent de la CIA perd le disque dur contenant son texte. Celui-ci se retrouve entre les mains de deux employés d'une salle de gym qui, croyant qu'il s'agit de documents secrets, vont tenter de les vendre pour s'offrir une opération de chirurgie esthétique.