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Back to black for the Coen Brothers.


Summary: The Coen Brothers have unveiled their new dark comedy, A Serious Man, at the London London, city, Canada
London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826.
 Film Festival.

The Coen Brothers have unveiled their new dark comedy at the London Film Festival.

The Academy Award winning directors are going back to their roots with A Serious Man - the story of a faithful husband and father whose only crime appears to be complacency com·pla·cen·cy  
n.
1. A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.

2. An instance of contented self-satisfaction.
 with his 1960s stable life.

The film is set in the Jewish Jew·ish  
adj.
Of or relating to the Jews or their culture or religion. See Usage Note at Jew.



Jewish·ly adv.
 suburban neighbourhoods of Minneapolis Minneapolis (mĭn'ēăp`əlĭs), city (1990 pop. 368,383), seat of Hennepin co., E Minn., at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River, at St. Anthony Falls; inc. 1856.  where Joel and Ethan Coen lived during their teenage years.

The story bears more than a passing resemblance Resemblance may refer to:
  • Resemblance: as in "you have a resemblance to your brother" (In the case of twins) see analogy and similarity.
  • Resemblance nominalism
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein's family resemblances.
 to the Old Testament Book of Job, but the Coens insist they didn't set out to tell a biblical story.

A Serious Man is released in the UK on November 20.

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