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Film · 2009 · Black comedy

A Serious Man

Name: A Serious Man
Director: Coen Brothers
Genre: Black comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Released: 2009

Directed by Coen Brothers

2009

★ 7.3 editorial score

The Coens' most personal film and their least forgiving: a Minnesota physics professor's life comes apart for no reason at all, and nobody in it will explain anything.

Genre

Black comedy Comedy drama Drama

Subject

Faith Judaism Suffering

Setting

Minnesota American Midwest

Time

2009Depicts 1960s

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