A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen

A Serious Man peaks under the covers to reveal every young (and, if the truth be told, older) academic's nightmare: the undermining of a career for reasons that nothing to do with teaching or scholarship. In the process, we become companions with a twentieth-century American Job, whose very Jewish travails occurs where else but Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Carter Burwell's soundtrack deserves notice.

Highly recommended.