Joel and Ethan Coen make their most personal, most intensely Jewish film, which turns out to be one of their most universal as well.
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
"If not now, when?" the Jewish sage Hillel famously asked, and with "A Serious Man" the Coen brothers have answered.
Writer-directors Joel and Ethan have seized the opportunity afforded by the Oscar-winning success of "No Country for Old Men," to make their most personal, most intensely Jewish film, a pitch-perfect comedy of despair that, against some odds, turns out to be one of their most universal as well.
Set in a very specific time and place -- the Jewish community in suburban Minneapolis circa 1967 -- that closely echoes the Coens' own background, "A Serious Man" is a memory piece re-imagined through the darkest possible lens. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (5261 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 2 ottobre 2009
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