Saturday Cinema: A serious man; Come on Coen's you can't be serious.

I just saw the Coen brothers new movie – A Simple Man (whoops, I mean Serious) – in a French movie house.  I found it too, too Woody Allenesque, in that I laughed, I knew most of the German and Yiddish spoken (I was watching the vo, but a French version), understood most of the Jewish angst and religious rites, certainly knew the Manhattanite code words, but exited from the theater wondering why I hadn’t walked out earlier.  

 

Simply put - it had only moments of humor, but hours of tsouris and years of pain. It was simple but in the sense of childlike, dim-witted, lacking intelligence or common sense.