Feb 25: A Serious Man

We are proud to present our first ever Coen Brothers movie, the Oscar-nominated A SERIOUS MAN. The indie directors Joel and Ethan Coen had a string of hit films including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Oscar-winning smash hit, No Country for Old Men.

Now comes A SERIOUS MAN, nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars. The Coen Brothers channel their suburban Minneapolis childhood to tell the story of a university professor suffering the trials of Job. His wife is leaving him for his insufferable best friend; his  daughter is demanding a nose job; his students are cheating; and someone is sending poison pen letters about him to the tenure committee.

These are the funny, quirky Coens of Fargo and Raising Arizona, not the menacing Coens of No Country for Old Men. Says the Los Angeles Times:

“Writer-directors Joel and Ethan have seized the opportunity afforded by the Oscar-winning success of No Country for Old Men, to make their most personal, most intensely Jewish film, a pitch-perfect comedy of despair that, against some odds, turns out to be one of their most universal as well.”

This is your only chance to see this Coen Brothers Oscar nominee on the big screen in Cape Breton.