The latest offering from the Coen brothers, A Serious Man takes us to the Midwest where a Jewish professor is about to experience several life altering occurrences.
While this movie has a completely different tone from their recent masterpiece, No Country for Old Men, I found it quite enjoyable. Writing and direction are good and the acting is excellent on the part of the whole cast.
The Coen brothers’ movies are always quite quirky, and this time the quirkiness starts right away with the opening clip that doesn’t relate to the movie itself but rather is tasked with setting the tone for what is to follow. In the brothers’ own words, it’s an homage to a time when movies always featured an introductory short, kind of like what Pixar does with all it’s movies.
I’d definitely recommend it for those who like the Coen brothers’ work, but it’s a movie anyone can enjoy while observing how this one man reacts to what’s happening to him and the people around him.
A Serious Man was also nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, although it certainly snuck in thanks to the suddenly widened field of nominations to ten from the previous five.
Grade: 8
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