Ones To Watch #17 - A Serious Man

#17

A Serious Man (dir. Coens)

Expected Release Date: TBA

Starring: Adam Arkin, Simon Helberg, Richard Kind, George Wyner, Michael Stuhlbarg

Studio: Focus Features/ Working Title

Those of you who have read previous entries on this blogsite, will have gathered a little understanding of my fondness for the Coen brothers. For that reason, I don’t need to repeat myself. But ‘A Serious Man’ is something altogether more peculiar…

Larry Gopnik is the film’s central character, with the screenplay revolving around his struggles in Jewish suburbia. He eventually seeks advice from three rabbis in the hope that his problems will be solved and he can become a serious man.

The film has been described early doors as a black comedy which suggests something closer to Fargo than Intolerable Cruelty.

Any other details are hard to come by at the moment, which gives me the impression that the film will come out rather quietly out of the gate (in comparison to the last few Coen films). I’m still waiting on a release date for this one as well as UK distributor so ill keep you all posted in the next couple of months.