| A Serious Man [DVD] [2009] | ![A Serious Man [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518KmZcOugL._SL160_.jpg)
| Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Rating:  34 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582752823
ASIN: B002ZRQB9U
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: March 15, 2010
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 Cruel, dark and infuriating- classic Coen Brothers. May 21, 2010
Mr. Te Stringer
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This film came as a great relief to me... I was seriously convinced that my beloved Coens had lost it altogether. I hadn't really enjoyed one of their films since The Man Who Wasn't There; Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, Burn After Reading and yes, even the lauded to the high heavens No Country For Old Men all left me cold. This film was the first time in a decade I didn't bother going to the cinema to see a new Coen Brothers film, because I just expected more disappointment. I eventually rented it last week, and it massively exceeded my expectations, being fresh, funny and consistently entertaining.
It tells the story of a middle aged jewish man in the sixties whose life is falling to pieces- his wife is unfaithful, his promotion is being threatened by a disgruntled student who is prepared to resort to bribery and blackmail to attain a passing grade, his son is in love with the counter culture and is more interested in getting high and listening to Jefferson Airplane than preparing for his Bar Mitzvah (and who can blame him!) Desperate for help, he goes to see three Rabbis who, as you'd expect from a Coen Brothers film, run the gamut from a bit weird to colourfully insane.
A lot of the negative reviews here make complaints I can sympathise with; yes, it doesn't go anywhere, it has long, seemingly irrelevant bits, the beginning and ending are both confusing and obtuse and offer no explanation whatsoever; its weird for weirds sake, its pretentious, its elitist arty nonsense, too clever for its own good etc.... often with independent films I find just these kind of things extremely offputting. Like most people, I don't like feeling stupid, so when things confuse me I get frustrated; but this film was so charming I didn't mind being stumped by the significance of the opening scene, about Jewish peasants receiving a visit from an evil spirit called a 'dybbuk', or the ending, which I won't disclose. I also didn't mind that it didn't go through a routine beginning, middle and end and resolve itself, because its that kind of playful spirit and desire to keep things original, even while riffing on genre staples, that make the Coen Brothers' films special. And now I can happily go back to looking forward to their next film.
Diamonds are forever January 9, 2010
Nikolaos Oikonomidis (Thessaloniki Greece)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
After a period in which my love for the Cohen brothers' movies was diminished, mainly due to the feeling that their own personal style I very much admired in movies such as Barton Fink, Fargo, Raising Arisona, The Miller Crossing and Hudsucker Proxy was beginning to suffer from repetition, I welcomed with enthousiasm what I sensed as their comeback (in my heart, at least), not with the generally acclaimed No country for the old man, but with Burn after reading, which I considered fantastic. And then along came A serious man, which in my opinion, is their definite masterpiece and also a rare film for these times of mediocracy. It is not the meanings, it is not the form, it is not the story; in the greatest of films it' s the feeling that you have a unique experience of another world, created by the minds and the hands of some genuine masters. This is the case of A serious man. Absolutely fabulous for all the possible reasons. A movie to die for.
Look out for The Cat January 15, 2010
Robert Sheed (Sheffield, UK)
23 out of 32 found this review helpful
Buy this wonderful film - the best from Coen Brothers yet - but look up Shrödinger's Cat on the Internet before you view. The opening scene, which at first looks to have no connection with the rest of the film, has confused most reviewers. It's an illustration of Shrödinger's Cat - itself an interpretation of uncertainty in Quantum Theory - in which the cat is dead and alive at the same time. The protagonist, Larry, lectures on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Look carefully at one of the scenes in Larry's lecture theatre and you'll see a mention of the cat on the blackboard behind him. Apart from laying the foundation for the uncertainty that pervades the rest of the film, it's given the Coen Brothers a chance to display one of their least endearing characteristics: laughing up their sleeves.
A brilliant and hugely funny film.
An Existential Masterpiece April 2, 2010
DTK Molise (Kabul, Afghanistan)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Chaos reigns in this world and there is nothing we can do to change this reality. The Coen Brothers have once again produced a picture of breathtaking quality expertly photographed by Roger Deakins. At turns funny and deathly depressing this was without doubt the film of 2009. If you enjoy interesting, challenging Hollywood pictures littered with excellent performances (especially by Fred Melamed as Sy Albeman - perhaps the years most disgusting movie villain) then you can do no better than purchase this DVD. In many ways A Serious Man should be seen as the natural follow up to No Country for Old Men with the bad luck of Larry Gopnik providing a perhaps even more frightening exploration of our precarious existence than that represented by Anton Chigurh.
 What the??!! March 23, 2010
Mr. R. W. Graham (Lincoln, U.K.)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is one of the coen brothers funniest films. Absolutely hillarious and barking mad too, and probably the weirdest film the coen brothers have ever done. The great unknown cast are hillarious, michael stulberg being the standout in the lead as a man on the edge of a nervous breakdown, or at least, that's what i thought was going on! Very easy to see why this is a huge hit with critics, but non coen brothers fans might wonder what all the fuss is about.
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