If you loved Inside Llewyn Davis, try A Serious Man

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Inside Llewyn Davis, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What A Serious Man is

Minneapolis suburbs, autumn, a spinning dreidel. A professor's life unravels, his wife packs, an obnoxious acquaintance waits. The Coens find humor in existential crisis.

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