ASTOR FILM CLUB: A Serious Man

Monday July 19th, 8pm

The Coen brothers' authorial identity in film has always traversed an intriguing spectrum between bright comedy and bitter darkness, and when their creations are pitched at just the right distance between each, the resulting film is a marvel.

So it is here in this sublimely funny, involving, utterly distinctive black comedy of mid-life crisis set in the American midwest in the 1960s, which happens to be where and when the Coen brothers themselves were brought up.

At once euphoric, sad and thoughtful, this film definitively identifies The Coens among America's pre-eminent film-makers.

106mins, 15