A Serious Man
What:
A Serious Man
Where:
In cinemas November 19
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
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Joel and Ethan Coen's latest film is an absolute winner. Surreal, richly allusive and cruelly hilarious, it narrates a decent man's struggle to reason his way out of a maze of absurd injustice.
Minneapolis, 1967, and physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is stressing about making tenure amid an anonymous whispering campaign against him and a possible attempt to bribe him. His no-good brother Arthur (Richard Kind) won't move off his couch, his bratty kids treat him with indifference, and in the ultimate indignity, his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) wants a divorce. She's taken up with the truly revolting Sy Ableman (a deliciously unctuous performance from Fred Melamed), who somehow has the local Jewish community convinced that he's a mensch - a serious man.
A wealth of detail in this film gestures towards our need to make sense of things: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; Arthur's epic probability project, the Mentaculus; a rabbi's rambling parable about teeth; the Jefferson Airplane lyric "When the truth turns out to be lies..." From the cryptic Yiddish prologue to the ominous ending, A Serious Man offers viewers as little solace as Larry. But like him, I couldn't help pondering what it all means.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Make a therapy appointment now
Keywords: Coen brothers
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