When it comes to American cinema's most distinctive voices, few duos have carved out as singular a niche as Joel and Ethan Coen. For over four decades, the brothers have built a filmography that cannot be categorised – moving between pitch-black neo-noir and screwball farce, it all maintains an unmistakably Coen-esque sensibility that blends dark humour, meticulous details, and plenty of absurdism.

From the blood-soaked highways of No Country For Old Men to the sunny bowling alleys of The Big Lebowski , the Coens have consistently demonstrated an ability to hop between genres while never losing their directorial fingerprints. Their world is one where hapless protagonists stumble into increasingly dire circumstances, where fate seems to have a particularly twisted sense of humour, and

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