This is one of the strangest yet most satisfying movie experiences of the year, one of those films in which you can't really appreciate what you've seen until it's over. You just have to trust that the trip is worth the trouble. And it is.
Inside Llewyn Davis
At a crossroads in the music world, where success remains elusive.
2013 · 1h 45m · R
Drama, Music
Directed by
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Overview
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
Director and cast
- Joel Coen Director
- Ethan Coen Director
- Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis
- Carey Mulligan as Jean
- Justin Timberlake as Jim
- Ethan Phillips as Mitch Gorfein
- Robin Bartlett as Lillian Gorfein
- Max Casella as Pappi Corsicato
- Jerry Grayson as Mel Novikoff
- Jeanine Serralles as Joy
- Adam Driver as Al Cody
- Stark Sands as Troy Nelson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The broad, black humor of the Coens' early features has ripened over the years into a sadder, more philosophical brand of comedy (A Serious Man) that puts them in a class with Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch (yeah, you heard me).
The Coen brothers have crafted another unique period piece.
Celebrating and mourning a bygone moment, "Inside Llewyn Davis" is a tuneful wake intended to arouse us from our slumber to desires worth remembering.
You don't end up rooting for Llewyn Davis because there's not much to root for. And this imparts a weird sort of impersonality or cold-bloodedness to the film's core.
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