''I would say an existential drama,'' said Ethan, who co-wrote the film with his brother and produced it.
The Coen brothers, in a recent conference call from their New York office, said they hadn't set out to make a ghost story, metaphorical or otherwise. ''But I never considered myself a barber.'' Like all who have stumbled into lives they never meant to choose, Ed hovers in a world of disconnected relationships, idle schemes and numbing disappointments. ''Yeah, I worked in a barbershop,'' Ed begins in the dry, dispassionate voiceover in which he will tell this tale. It's the story of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a small town barber in California in 1949 who is unable to grab a piece of the American dream. One such film was Joel and Ethan Coen's ''Man Who Wasn't There,'' which opens Wednesday.
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This year's Cannes International Film Festival showed several tales of earthly spirits bearing earthly sorrows - lost souls leading the half-lives of those who never learned how to inhabit their own houses or jobs or marriages or even skin. Predictable and gimmicky, as convincing as their special effects, ghosts blow in to spook the living with a glimpse of the bloodless world ahead.īut it does not take death to make ghosts of some of us. Ghost stories with scarier ambitions often have their phantoms making dramatic entrances in tired storylines about the vengeance of the wronged or the haunting of the house. The cartoon ''Casper,'' with his giggly little ''Boo!,'' or the corny, double-exposed Patrick Swayze in ''Ghost'' tend to overact and overdress. THE ghost stories we tell one another rely on the shadows of our own imaginations, but in movies it's pretty easy to know when we've seen a ghost.
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