d h (tequilamockingbird82)

Repeat viewings have only enhanced this one. I don't know what Oscar season will bring, but as yet this is my year's favorite.

Terrific exercise in the art of sympathetically depicting a man at breaking point. No one does it better than Richard Burton in NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, but Stuhlbarg fares very well. Also hands down one of the year's best original screenplays. Though AWAY WE GO may still be my favorite picture, A SERIOUS MAN beats even THE BROTHERS BLOOM in writing. Rian Johnson is promising, but the Coens may be likened to the tornado toward their film's close: a force to be reckoned with, upon which most writers can only look with helplessness.