A Serious Man (2009) starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Adam Arkin. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg) is suffering a spot of bother. His wife wants a gett (ritual Jewish divorce), a student where he teaches is trying to bribe him, and his children (Wolff and McManus) are constantly bickering; he gets into a car accident, and he has nightmares. He finds himself consulting a series of rabbis and smoking pot with one of his suburban neighbors. He sees a lawyer (Arkin) about the divorce. What does it all mean? I couldn't tell you, because the movie comes to an abrupt and maddening end. What the ending means, or what it is supposed to mean, I couldn't figure out. Grade: B-
No comments:
Post a Comment