The New Zealand Herald’s website is carrying an article with a brief interview with Joel and Ethan Coen. In the main it’s about the release of Burn After Reading but contains this interesing part about A Serious Man…
Set in a Jewish community in the midwest in 1967, A Serious Man is again their own story. Drama or comedy?
“I don’t know,” replies Ethan. “Was this one a comedy? Well, if it is then I suppose A Serious Man is a comedy too.” Is it a black comedy perhaps? “Not so much, but it’s not Tropic Thunder either. Our movies are hard to describe. It’s about a family. Not much happens. There are a few laughs. We have a few actors in mind but there’s nobody in it you’ve ever heard of.”
Was that deliberate after the star-studded Burn After Reading?
“Only in the sense that with some movies you want that movie star thing and some you don’t.”
Thanks to Nick for mailing this one in.
