Hello everyone! I can't believe the summer is basically over and we're already in September, the time is just flying by! Thank you to everyone who braved the Weird and Wonderful this summer, we watched a lot of strange films by a lot of strange directors and had some good, and only a little strange, discussions. For the month of Sept. we will briefly return to the world of normal films (well, kind of). We will be watching the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.
A Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967, the films stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesotan Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith.
A Serious Man received widespread positive critical response and was nominated for Best Picture. It currently holds a fresh rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert awarded it 4/4 stars saying this in his review, "Beginning with a darkly comic prologue in Yiddish, "A Serious Man" inhabits a Jewish community where the rational (physics) is rendered irrelevant by the mystical (fate). Much of the success of "A Serious Man" comes from the way Michael Stuhlbarg plays the role. He doesn't play Gopnik as a sad-sack or a loser, a whiner or a depressive, but as a hopeful man who can't believe what's happening to him. What else can go wrong? Where can he find happiness? Who can he please? Have I mentioned "A Serious Man" is so rich and funny? This isn't a laugh-laugh movie, but a wince-wince movie. Those can be funny, too."
We will be meeting Thursday, Sept. 26 at 5:30pm
Here's a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKHWRbK2_Q
Hope to see you there!
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