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There's a new trailer online for A Serious Man, the latest film from those only semi-serious filmmakers, Joel and Ethan Coen. And it's not like your normal trailer, looping sound and dialogue to give the impression that DJ Shadow cut it together. We expect the dance remix any minute.

The film's set in 1967 and tells the story of Larry Gopnik (MIchael Stuhlbarg), a Jewish academic who's up for tenure and facing a series of personal crises. His wife (Sari Wagner Lennick) wants a divorce so she can marry his colleague (Fred Melamed); his brother (Richard Kind) is living on his sofa and his children are stealing from him. He looks for advice from three different rabbis, but doesn't get exactly what he's looking for.

A Serious Man is out on November 20 here, on the same day as Soderbergh's The Informant!, making it a very good week for fans of indie filmmakers.

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from: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=25457

And here's the trailer:

I'm undecided on it, but given their track record I guess I'll probably like it.

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No h in Coen Brothers.

I'd say given their track record, it could be great, or it could me... there? I didn't like Fargo that much, which everyone seems to think is their masterpiece, but I did enjoy No Country and Burn After, so, I will check this out when it hits DVD more than likely.

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I'm a Coen Brothers freak. I love everything they've slapped my face with and own pretty much all their movies. The only one I actually didn't enjoy that much was their first one, Blood Simple. It was decent, and great for their first effort, but pales in comparison to all the greatness they did afterward.

A Serious Man continues their vain of dark and violent comedy. I'll definitely be watching it in theaters if it opens here.

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I actually just watched Fargo last night and thought it was pretty funny (but admittedly not the work of utter genius that a lot of people apparently think it is). The Coen Brothers, after No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading, have joined Charlie Kaufman in my "if their name is attached I'm most likely going to see it in theaters" category so I'll be seeing this, most likely; the trailer itself looked good in that "I still have no idea what this is about and yet I want to see it anyway" way.

EDIT: Also Richard Kind is in this so that's another point in this film's favor. Richard Kind rules.

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I checked out the trailer and really wasn't interested but I'm not really surprised. For some reason, the Coen Brothers don't do anything for me. I've seen The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading and most of Fargo and couldn't get into any of them. Not my taste I guess.

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Yeah, one of my first thoughts coming out of this was "yyyyup, that was a Coen Brothers ending right there." Dark comedy and quirky characters are two of their calling cards. If you liked this I would definitely recommend a lot of their filmography, particularly Fargo because I think in terms of tone this one had the most in common with that.

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It was my first Coen's film and I thought it was really clever. Are most of their films similar to this, in a sense? In which, they're very real, odd and contain lots of dark comedy?

Yes. Every Coen movie, no matter how bleak or strange the subject matter, tends to have at least a few really funny moments. I wouldn't say they're all "real" though, as quite a few of their movies are intentionally set up as a sort of genre-reinterpretation: Miller's Crossing as a gangster movie, Hudsucker Proxy has a Frank Capra post-WWII vibe, Burn After Reading is done as a spy movie. But in all of their movies they really manage to ground the film in its world. It's hard to think of filmmakers working today where the setting is so distinct and important in each project.

Also, if the ending left you confused and/or irritated, there's a lot of that, too.

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