Cinema - A Serious Man (Cert. 15) 

Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen

USA 2009 1hr 45mins
Michael Stuhlberg, Fred Melamed,
Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff

The new film from the Coen brothers will be a serious contender on Oscar night.

Likened to The Graduate, A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a world 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 acquaintances, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny has a discipline problem, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. 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?

"The Coen brothers may just have made their masterpiece" The Guardian

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