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A Serious Man

Synopsis
The film takes place in 1967 in Minneapolis, Joel and Ethan Coen's hometown, and follows the life of nebbish Larry Gopnik as it suddenly falls apart. An upright Jewish college teacher, Gopnik has a wife who is leaving him for his colleague Sy Ableman, while his children secretly dip into his wallet, Danny so he can buy joints, Sarah so she can save up for a nose job. To top it off, he has a brother who's a mooching moron, a student who says he takes bribes, and a series of eccentric rabbis for spiritual consolation, who only want to bring him back into the fold. Black humour, grotesque comedy, so cultured there's even an irresistible prologue in old Yiddish. The theological and philosophical concerns that have always leavened the Coen brothers' films have a field day in A Serious Man, and the moral reckoning is ruthless, as usual, despite the slew of gags.

Directors
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are directors, scriptwriters and producers. Among their films, Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), which won both Best Director and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Fargo (1996), which earned an Academy Award® for best original screenplay, The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), The Ladykillers (2004), the first film where both Joel and Ethan are given directing and producing credits (prior to that film, Joel had been listed as director and Ethan as producer), No Country for Old Men (2007), which won best picture, best director and best screenplay at the 2007 Academy Awards®, and Burn After Reading (2008).