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The film starts with a prologue set in 1800s Poland, a Yiddish couple expecting a guest to dinner whom the wife thinks died last year, that serves as a perfect flavour of what to expect from the next 100 minutes: funny, dark and with a pervading sense of doom that slowly takes hold and grips like a vice.

From there the film jumps forward to follow Larry Gupnik, a husband, father, and University professor, who seems to have done the right thing all his life, only for it now to unravel on him at every turn. His wife leaves him for an overbearing new lover who moves into the family home and forces Larry into a motel, his career at the University is under threat, his brother is being investigated by the police, and his kids are either smoking pot or can’t stand him.

“A Serious Man is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film”.

“The Coen brothers have done it again – quirky, enthralling, fabulous”

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