The Coen Brothers are back again with another Black Comedy A Serious Man and the first trailer has been posted online.
“The story follows an ordinary mans search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larrys unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larrys chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person; a mensch, a serious man?” – IMDB
The main character Larry will be played by Michael Stuhlbarg along with Aaron Wolf, Sari Lennick and Richard Kind .
A Serious Man will hit the UK cinemas November 20th rating 15.
As Jewish as the Coen bros have gotton on screen so far. Set in a town similar to where they grew up and I guess some stories from their youth. One should seek the advise from their Rabbie before seeing this movie…
there’s something about coen bros movies I dont like but i dont know why i dont like them. I worked at a cinema last year when burn after reading was on and was able to catch some of the movie and I didnt laugh a single bit, the audience where a little like that as well, i am curious to serious man though
I too felt the same about the Coen bros. But they slowly grow on you. Well they did with me. I hated movies like Fargo (even though it won academy), I hated the constant piano music in the background, but then they made classics like, Brother where art thou and Raising Arizona, and I like how they try and put hidden meaning behind their movies. No Country for Old Men was a good one too.