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Oct. 2nd, 2009
A Serious Man (2009)
Oct. 2nd, 2009 07:57 am
A Serious Man opens on Friday nationwide.
Calls to God: Always a Busy Signal
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: October 2, 2009
Did you hear the one about the guy who lived in the land of Uz, who was perfect and upright and feared God? His name was Job. In the new movie version, “A Serious Man,” some details have been changed. He’s called Larry Gopnik and he lives in Minnesota, where he teaches physics at a university. When we first meet Larry, in the spring of 1967, his tenure case is pending, his son’s bar mitzvah is approaching, and, as in the original, a lot of bad stuff is about to happen, for no apparent reason. More
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in Lars von Trier "Antichrist," at the New York Film Festival.
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By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: October 1, 2009
You can pinpoint the exact moment when Lars von Trier’s film “Antichrist” loses its mind. In the movie, likely to be the most divisive selection in this year’s New York Film Festival, a psychologist wandering through the trees around his mountain cabin (named Eden) stumbles upon a wounded fox that growls in an “Exorcist” voice, “Chaos reigns.” More