At first, I strongly identified with Llewyn Davis' struggles — I think you'd be hard pressed to find a musician who doesn't — but by the film's end, I realize not only how many of those struggles are self-inflicted, I feel as if Llewyn is going to cycle through them many more times before things pick up or bottom out. Musically, Llewyn comes across as scrappy and soulful. He's just the person I'd want singing those sad, world-weary folk songs, at least compared to the cleaner- cut performers he meets throughout the film. And yet, that soul seems to come from tragedies (the suicide of his one-ti... read the rest.
Inside Llewyn Davis
(2013)
Overview
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted, but volatile musician Llewyn Davis contemplates leaving the music scene altogether to return to sea as a merchant marine after the suicide of his singing partner.
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Crew
Directors: | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
Writers: | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
Cast
Oscar Isaac
Carey Mulligan
Justin Timberlake
Jerry Grayson |
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Production Companies
StudioCanal, CBS Films, Anton Capital Entertainment (ACE)