This Friday,
Film: A Serious Man
Directed by: Coen brothers
Language: English
Runtime: 106 min
Venue: IDC Auditorium
Time: 9:00 pm
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Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 27 nominations
IMDB Rating 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
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Synopsis:
So you have a taste for scathing humor? You love biting satires slyly ridiculing quotidian mindsets and their search for the meaning of life? I present to you "A Serious Man".
A Physics professor struggles to cope up in a life of uncalled for complications- his wife leaving him for one of his overblown colleagues, a son who is a slacker at school, an unemployed brother, a daughter who is snitching on his money for a nose job! With a tinge of the Coen spice of humor, the film raises many relevant questions on life and what it means to be and do good!
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Rollingstone review:
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as sons of Jewish academics. But if you're expecting something warm and fuzzy, circa 1967, you don't know the Coens, and A Serious Man is no country for you. This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell.
Michael Phillips from Chicago Tribune:
A tart, brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties, a Coen brothers comedy with a darker philosophical outlook than “No Country for Old Men” but with a script rich in verbal wit.
Other reads:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/movies/reviews/stories/DN-seriousman_1009gd.ART.State.Edition1.23e770c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2009-10-01-serious-man_N.htm
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Quotes:
Rabbi Nachtner: Sure! We all want the answer! But Hashem doesn't owe us the answer, Larry. Hashem doesn't owe us anything. The obligation runs the other way.
Sy Ableman: I fucked your wife, Larry! I seriously fucked her!
Larry Gopnik: We're sitting shiva here.
Cop #1: You're *what*?
Larry Gopnik: A religious observance. We're... bereaved.
Cop #2: Who died?
Larry Gopnik: My wife's...
[breaks off]
Larry Gopnik: It's a long story. [courtesy: www.imdb.com]
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Trivia:
1. As with all Coen brothers movies, there are many allusions in the film. In A Serious Man many of the allusions are Biblical. Larry is a Job-like figure, a good man to whom many bad things happen with no explanation. When he is on his roof, he sees over his neighbor's fence and looks at his neighbor's beautiful wife naked in her yard, just as King David saw Bathsheba. His son Danny's looking at the oncoming tornado recalls God speaking to Job from out of the whirlwind, saying He will not explain why these bad things have happened to him.
2. The Coen Brothers' original idea for the picture was as a short film about Danny's stoned bar mitzvah and his meeting with Rabbi Marshak. All of the other content in the movie grew out of that sequence. [courtesy: www.imdb.com]
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