Joel and Ethan Coen make their most personal, most intensely Jewish film, which turns out to be one of their most universal as well. "If not now, when?" the Jewish sage Hillel famously asked, and with "A Serious Man" the Coen brothers have answered.
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Fri, 10/02/2009 - 12:00am
Joel and Ethan Coen make their most personal, most intensely Jewish film, which turns out to be one of their most universal as well. "If not now, when?" the Jewish sage Hillel famously asked, and with "A Serious Man" the Coen brothers have answered.