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Meeting Marshak: exclusive clip from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man

published Wed, Nov 11 2009 09:11 GMT
I loved the Coen brothers' masterpiece of suburban comedy, and this exclusive clip gives a wonderful hint of its distinctive pleasuresHere's an exclusive clip from the new Coen brothers film, A Serious Man – which luckily contains the moment when the lead character Larry Gopnik (played by Broadway veteran Michael Stuhlbarg) announces himself as such. Or at least he stutters out: "I've tried to be a serious man, you know? Tried to do right."A Serious Man is essentially about things not always being what they seem. Gopnik is a man in search of answers: his life is falling apart, his wife wants to leave him, one of his students is trying to bribe his way through his exams, his neighbour ...

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