Funny Trailer for Coens' 'Serious Man'
Filed under: Comedy, Focus Features, Trailers and Clips
I never skip a Coen brothers movie, even the ones that hardly anyone mentions anymore, like The Man Who Wasn't There. Even when the movies don't quite work, they all have wonderful moments I'd hate to miss. I prefer the comedies -- don't shoot me when I say I liked Burn After Reading better than No Country for Old Men -- so I'm looking forward to their next movie, the dark comedy A Serious Man, which will open in limited release starting October 2.The first trailer for A Serious Man has just been posted to the Apple site, and if you didn't know it was a Coen brothers movie, the visuals would give it away almost immediately. You also realize quickly that this is a non-star movie -- only a few character actors may seem familiar. The cast includes Richard Kind, Adam Arkin and Fyvush Finkel.
Michael Stuhlbarg plays Larry Gopnik, whose life appears to be crumbling around him in ways that might be heartbreaking in another movie. In the hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, however, it looks like A Serious Man could be as darkly and weirdly funny as Barton Fink. The trailer itself isn't as laugh-out-loud as the one for Burn After Reading -- every time I saw Brad Pitt in the gym I started giggling -- but it's hardly short on humor. Check it out after the jump and see whether you agree.
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7-30-2009 @ 1:01PM
Matt said...
I was like, meh. Then i was like JEFFERSON AIRPLANE!!!!
So now i want to see it.
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7-30-2009 @ 2:10PM
John said...
" don't shoot me when I say I liked Burn After Reading better than No Country for Old Men "
I'm getting my two six shooters ready, you blasphemous cretin!
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8-30-2009 @ 7:03PM
Peter said...
I don't know why The Man Who Wasn't There isn't talked about more in the Coen's oeuvre. The cinemetography is brilliant, the writing was tight, and the story was just about perfect. It is in my top ten favorite Coen movies.
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