The youngest of the Coen brothers no longer wants to make films and is tempted by the theater

Like the Beatles or the Daft Punks. The daring duo of American filmmakers to whom we owe

,

or even

could have dissolved for good. At least that's what one understands by listening to the last statements of Carter Burwell, the appointed composer of the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. Guest at the end of July on the American music-loving podcast Score, the musician spoke in no uncertain terms of the lone rider of Joel Coen - the eldest of the siblings - who is working on the upcoming release of his new film,

A solo cinematic journey that could continue beyond this film.

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The new adaptation of Shakespeare's play, which premieres at the New York Film Festival in early fall, is whetting the appetites of moviegoers.

Its arguments are not lacking, like its cast of choice worn by Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, as well as its black and white palette.

But the film is just as intriguing by its small backyard event: its realization by - and only by - Joel Coen who signs his first feature film there after forty years devoted to cinema with four hands.

And for good reason, the youngest of the band has traded in his filmmaker's camera for the playwright's pen and the film set for the limelight.

The authenticity of the theater rather than the artifice of the cinema

"Ethan just didn't want to make movies anymore,"

commented Carter Burwell, who has worked with the duo since their first production,

(1984).

the musician clarified.

After a first theatrical experience in 2008, Ethan Coen inaugurated his last piece -

- in the fall of 2019. And seems more than satisfied with his new activity.

he confided two years ago to the

, suggesting that he could perhaps return to the cinema.

,” he also said, comparing these two forms of artistic expression.

Inseparable since their beginnings behind the camera in the 1980s, the Coen brothers have made no less than twenty films together, until

released in 2018 on Netflix. Will this western anthology remain their last joint work? Carter Burwell wants to believe not.

, he told Score's US podcasters.

Will the director turned playwright ever come back behind the camera? This twist, if it were to occur, would certainly not have been denied by the Coen brothers.