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Film by Joel and Ethan Coen

A Serious Man
A man standing on the roof of a house, looking off to his left. His hands are on his hips. Behind him is a TV aerial.

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Written by
  • Joel Coen
  • Ethan Coen
Produced by
  • Joel Coen
  • Ethan Coen
Starring
  • Michael Stuhlbarg
  • Richard Kind
  • Fred Melamed
Cinematography Roger Deakins
Edited by
  • Joel Coen
  • Ethan Coen
Music past Carter Burwell

Production
companies
  • StudioCanal
  • Relativity Media
  • Working Title
  • Mike Zoss Productions
Distributed past Focus Features (International)
StudioCanal (France)[1]

Release date
  • October 2, 2009 (2009-x-02)

Running time

 106 minutes
Countries
  • U.s.
  • United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland
  • France
Language English
Budget $7 one thousand thousand
Box office $31.iv million[1]

A Serious Homo is a 2009 black comedy-drama flick[two] written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967,[3] the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his religion.

A Serious Man received widespread positive critical response, including a place on both the American Moving picture Institute's and National Board of Review's Top x Film Lists of 2009. Information technology was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film, and Stuhlbarg was nominated for a Golden Earth Award.

Plot [edit]

A Jewish human in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Reb Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and the man he invited must be a dybbuk. Groshkover arrives and laughs off the allegation, just she plunges an ice pick into his chest. Bleeding, he exits their dwelling house into the snowy dark.

In 1967, Larry Gopnik is a professor of physics living in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. His married woman, Judith, tells him that she needs a get so she tin marry widower Sy Ableman, with whom she has fallen in love. Meanwhile, their son Danny owes twenty dollars to an intimidating Hebrew school classmate for marijuana. He has the money, but it is hidden in a transistor radio that was confiscated by his teacher. Their girl, Sarah, is e'er washing her hair, going out and avoiding school. Larry'south brother, Arthur, is homeless and sleeps on the couch, spending his gratuitous fourth dimension filling a notebook with what he calls a "probability map of the universe" or a "mentaculus".

Clive Park, a S Korean student worried nearly losing his scholarship, meets with Larry in his part to contend he should not fail the class. Subsequently he leaves, Larry finds an envelope stuffed with cash. When Larry attempts to return it, Clive's begetter threatens to sue Larry either for defamation if Larry accuses Clive of blackmail, or for keeping the money if he does not give him a passing course. Larry faces an impending vote on his application for tenure, and his department caput informs him that anonymous letters have urged the committee to deny him.

At the insistence of Judith and Sy, Larry and Arthur move into a nearby motel. Judith empties the couple's banking company accounts, leaving Larry penniless, so he enlists the services of a divorce attorney. Larry learns that Arthur faces charges of solicitation and sodomy.

Larry turns to his Jewish faith for consolation. He consults a junior rabbi, who advises Larry to modify his "perspective". Larry and Sy are involved in separate, simultaneous car crashes. Larry is unharmed, merely Sy dies. Larry consults a 2d rabbi for solace, who recounts a parable about a dentist who finds Hebrew inscriptions on a patient'south teeth. Larry also tries to contact Marshak, the synagogue's senior rabbi, who isn't bachelor. At Judith'due south insistence, Larry pays for Sy's funeral. At the funeral, Sy is eulogized equally "a serious man".

Larry calls on his neighbor, Vivienne Samsky, whom he has seen sunbathing naked. She introduces him to marijuana. He subsequently dreams that he is having sex with her, but this turns into a nightmare.

Arthur is despondent almost the charges levied at him, and Larry consoles him. Larry then has another nightmare in which he gives Arthur the money Clive left him and drives him to cross into Canada by boat, whereupon his neighbors shoot Arthur in the neck. Larry is proud and moved by Danny's Bar Mitzvah, unaware that his son is under the influence of marijuana. During the service, Judith apologizes to Larry for all the recent trouble and informs him that Sy respected him so much that he even wrote letters to the tenure committee. Danny meets with Marshak, a brief encounter in which Marshak only quotes Jefferson Aeroplane's "Somebody to Dearest", names some members of the band, returns the radio, and tells Danny to "be a good boy".

Larry's department head compliments him on Danny's Bar Mitzvah and hints that he will receive tenure. The mail service brings a $3,000 bill from Arthur'due south lawyer. Larry decides to change Clive'southward class from F to C−, whereupon Larry's medico calls, asking to encounter him immediately about the results of a chest Ten-ray. Meanwhile, Danny's teacher struggles to open up the emergency shelter equally a massive tornado closes in on the school.

Cast [edit]

  • Michael Stuhlbarg equally Lawrence "Larry" Gopnik
  • Richard Kind as Arthur Gopnik
  • Fred Melamed as Sy Ableman
  • Sari Lennick as Judith Gopnik
  • Aaron Wolff as Danny Gopnik
  • Jessica McManus every bit Sarah Gopnik
  • Alan Mandell every bit Rabbi Marshak
  • Adam Arkin as Don Milgram
  • George Wyner as Rabbi Nachtner
  • Amy Landecker as Mrs. Vivienne Samsky
  • Peter Breitmayer as Mr. Brandt
  • Brent Braunschweig as Mitch Brandt
  • Katherine Borowitz as Mimi Nudell
  • Allen Lewis Rickman as Velvel
  • Yelena Shmulenson equally Dora
  • Fyvush Finkel as Traitl Groshkover
  • Simon Helberg every bit Rabbi Scott Ginsler
  • Raye Birk as Dr. Shapiro
  • Michael Lerner as Solomon Schlutz
  • David Kang every bit Clive
  • Steve Park equally Clive's father
  • Ari Hoptman as Arlen Finkle
  • Amanda Twenty-four hours as Art Pupil
  • Landyn Banx as Actor

Production [edit]

Considerable attention was paid to the setting; information technology was of import to the Coens to find a neighborhood of original-looking suburban rambler homes as they would have appeared in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, in the late 1960s. Locations were scouted in nearby Edina, Richfield, Brooklyn Center, and Hopkins[four] before a suitable location was found in Bloomington.[5] The film's look is partly based on the Brad Zellar volume Suburban Globe: The Norling Photographs, a drove of photographs of Bloomington in the 1950s and 60s.[six]

Location filming began on September 8, 2008, in Minnesota. An part scene was shot at Normandale Customs College in Bloomington. The pic also used a set built in the schoolhouse'southward library, as well as pocket-size sections of the 2d floor science edifice hallway. The synagogue is the B'nai Emet Synagogue in St. Louis Park. The Coens besides shot some scenes in St. Olaf College's onetime science edifice because of its similar menstruum architecture.[7] [8] Scenes were also shot at the Minneapolis legal offices of Meshbesher & Spence, the name of whose founder and president, Ronald I. Meshbesher, is mentioned as the criminal lawyer recommended to Larry in the motion-picture show.[ix] Filming wrapped on November 6, 2008, after 44 days, alee of schedule and within budget.[10]

Longtime collaborator Roger Deakins rejoined the Coens as cinematographer, following his absenteeism from Burn Afterward Reading. This was his tenth motion picture with them.[11] Costume designer Mary Zophres returned for her ninth collaboration with the directors.[11]

The Coens themselves stated that the "germ" of the story was a rabbi from their adolescence: a "mysterious effigy" who had a private conversation with each educatee at the conclusion of their religious education.[12] Ethan Coen said that it seemed appropriate to open the film with a Yiddish folk tale, but as the brothers did not know any suitable ones, they wrote their own.[13]

Open auditions for the roles of Danny and Sarah were held on May iv, 2008, at the Sabes Jewish Community Center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, one of the scheduled shooting locations. Open auditions for the role of Sarah were as well held in June 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.[14] [fifteen]

Patton Oswalt and Marc Maron auditioned for the roles of Arthur Gopnik and Larry Gopnik.[16] [17]

Music [edit]

All of the pic'southward original music is by Carter Burwell,[18] who also worked on every previous Coen brothers movie except O Brother, Where Fine art One thousand? [nineteen] The pic too contains pieces of Yiddish music including "Dem Milner'due south Trern" by Mark Warshawsky and performed by Sidor Belarsky,[20] which deals with the abuse and recurring evictions of Jews from Shtetlekh.[21]

The soundtrack also includes the following songs by pop 1960s artists:

No. Title Artist Length
1. "Somebody to Love[20]" Jefferson Airplane two:58
2. "Today" Jefferson Plane 3:02
three. "Comin' Back to Me" Jefferson Aeroplane 5:16
4. "three/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" Jefferson Airplane 3:40
5. "Machine Gun[twenty]" Jimi Hendrix 12:36

Release [edit]

The film began a limited release in the Usa on October 2, 2009. Information technology premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival[22] on September 12, 2009.[23]

Box role [edit]

Film Release engagement Box office revenue Box office ranking Upkeep Reference
United States United States International Worldwide All time United States All fourth dimension worldwide
A Serious Man October 2, 2009 $9,228,768 $22,201,566 $31,430,334 #3,818 Unknown $7,000,000[24] [25]

A Serious Human grossed $9,228,768 domestically, and $22,201,566 internationally, making for a worldwide gross of $31,430,334.[1]

Critical response [edit]

A Serious Human being received mostly positive reviews from critics, and holds a 89% approving rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 227 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of seven.94/ten. The site'south disquisitional consensus reads, "Blending nighttime humor with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers evangelize what might be their most mature—if not their best—film to appointment."[26] The flick besides holds a score of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 38 critics, indicating "Universal acclamation".[27]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars. His review highlighted the film's Yiddish folktale prologue, suggesting that though the Coens maintain it has no relation to the rest of the moving-picture show, "peradventure considering an ancestor invited a dybbuk (wandering soul) to cross his threshold, Larry is cursed."[28] In an essay in Jung Periodical: Civilization and Psyche, Steve Zemmelman considers that the prologue may link to the Jefferson Airplane soundtrack motif, reflecting Larry's normal sense of order condign increasingly disrupted. He writes, "what tin happen when 'the wheel falls off the cart', equally Velvel says happened to him on the road that nighttime, or 'when the truth is found to be lies', that lyric from 'Somebody to Beloved' that serves as bookends for this moving-picture show."[29]

Claudia Puig of Us Today wrote, "A Serious Man is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing motion picture. Underlying the grim humor are serious questions about faith, family unit, mortality and misfortune."[xxx] Time magazine critic Richard Corliss called it "disquieting" and "haunting".[31]

Some critics commented on the link between the motion-picture show and the Biblical Book of Job. K. 50. Evans wrote, "nosotros place it as a Task story because its key character is tormented by his failure to account for the miseries that befall him".[32] In his essay "Job of Bourgeoisie?", David Tollerton wrote, "the more substantial connection between A Serious Man and the Book of Task—the connexion that reaches deeper—is their similarly cool presentations of the human struggle with anguish and the divine."[33] Slate magazine critic Juliet Lapidos considered that the folktale prologue may be an endorsement of the "gumption" of "taking matters into her own easily".[34]

The Wall Street Periodical 'due south Joe Morgenstern disliked what he saw as the movie's misanthropy, saying that "their caricatures range from dislikable through despicable, with not a smidgeon of humanity to redeem them."[35] David Denby of The New Yorker enjoyed the film'southward wait and experience, but found fault with the script and characterization: "A Serious Man, similar Burn down After Reading, is in their bleak, black, belittling way, and it's hell to sit through ... As a piece of flick-making craft, A Serious Human is fascinating; in every other way, it'due south intolerable."[36] Zemmelman wrote that this kind of viewer response results from the moving picture's lack of narrative resolution: "The film is perplexing and the dialogue reminds the viewer repeatedly that we are in an encounter with the ever-conflictual and the infinitely mysterious."[37]

Todd McCarthy said, "A Serious Homo is the kind of picture yous get to make after you lot've won an Oscar."[38] Awarding the film 5 stars in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said, "this strange and wonderful film is rounded off with a gloriously well-crafted apocalyptic vision and a chilling intimation of divine retribution for earthly wrongdoing. The Coens have finished the noughties as America'south preeminent filmmakers".[39]

A Serious Human being was subsequently voted the 82nd greatest picture since 2000 in a BBC international critics' poll.[forty]

Accolades [edit]

A Serious Human received numerous awards and nominations,[41] [42] mostly within for All-time Moving picture, Screenplay, Cast, and Cinematography. Joel and Ethan Coen were awarded Best Original Screenplay at the 2009 National Board of Review Awards and the 2010 National Society of Film Critics Awards.[43] The screenplay was also nominated for All-time Original Screenplay at the 2010 University Awards.[44] Other nominations for All-time Original Screenplay include acknowledgment from the Writers Guild of America Awards, BAFTA,[45] the Circulate Film Critics Association'due south 15th Almanac Critic'due south Choice Awards[46] and the 2010 Boston Order of Film Critics.[47]

The film was likewise nominated for Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards;[48] BBC News called information technology "one of the less talked about nominees".[49] Other nominations for All-time Picture include the Broadcast Film Critics Association's 15th Almanac Critics' Choice Awards, Boston Society of Film Critics and the Chicago Motion-picture show Critics Association. The National Board of Review of Move Pictures, the American Film Institute, the Satellite Awards, and the Southeastern Film Critics Clan Awards all listed the film as one of the ten best of 2009.

Stuhlbarg was awarded the Chaplin Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara International Picture Festival[50] and nominated for Best Actor at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards.[51] Stuhlbarg, Kind, Melamed and Lennick were nominated for a Gotham Award for All-time Performance by an Ensemble Bandage.[52] Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, casting directors Ellen Chenoweth and Rachel Tenner, and actors Kind, Lennick, Melamed, Stuhlbarg, Wolff and McManus were awarded the 2010 Robert Altman Accolade by Moving picture Independent for Excellence in Collaborative Cinematic Achievement by Directors, Casting Directors alongside an Ensemble Cast and Best Cinematography at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards.[53]

Roger Deakins received the Best Cinematography awards at both the 2009 Hollywood Awards and the 2009 San Francisco Film Critics Circumvolve Awards, along with the Nikola Tesla Award[54] at the 2009 14th Satellite Awards.[55]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • A Serious Homo at IMDb
  • A Serious Man at AllMovie
  • A Serious Homo at Box Office Mojo
  • A Serious Man at Rotten Tomatoes
  • A Serious Man at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
  • The Coen brothers discuss 'A Serious Human being' Archived April 22, 2019, at the Wayback Automobile with TimeOut

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