I divide Coen Brothers' movies into two groups: their dark dramas (Blood Simple, No Country for Old Men), and their dark satires (The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink). A Serious Man is one of the latter, but the comedy this time is so dark, it borders on the former. The chronicles of a very unlucky but serious man, sprinkled with a flurry of confusing Hebrew expressions (of which not even the story characters understand), makes the deadpan humor so bleak, I had a hard time perceiving the usual Coens' charm. They've done much better than this before.
Mo says:
No comments:
Post a Comment