"I seriously fucked your wife, Larry. I seriously fucked her."

Well. Hm. This one was just bizarre. As a rule we are big fans of the Cohen brothers, so of course we wanted to see A Serious Man. I am still not entirely sure how we felt about it. Mostly we spent the entire movie cringing at how horribly everyone treats Larry. Just when you think maybe he will get out from under the avalanche of shit that is his life, another wave comes tumbling down. He is probably the blandest and least drama causing character in the entire movie, and yet everything bad that could possibly happen to him does. We spent a good bulk of the movie despising Larry's wife, who is in the process of leaving him but seems determined to make his life miserable. There were lots of familiar faces sprinkled throughout, and a lot of humor based in the ridiculousness of the situations Larry faces (his neighbors, his Korean student, his kids, etc.) so it wasn't purely a drama, more like a pitch black comedy. I guess we liked it but I don't know that we would recommend it unless you're already a Cohen brothers fan and get their style.