Inside Llewyn Davis

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Pb B @RT25305242 Jul 14 One of the worst, slowest movies I’ve ever seen. A bleak, depressing tale of a sad, failure of a musician who never makes it - it begins and ends sadly. With lots of swearing. Oh and a random cat. See more Vixo S @vixo_six Jun 11 Inside Llewyn Davis is a quiet but deeply moving film about failure, persistence and the painful need to keep going when the world refuses to listen. On the surface, little seems to happen, but inside Llewyn there is exhaustion, grief, pride and a constant battle between surrender and artistic faith. Oscar Isaac gives a performance full of irony and broken dignity, while the songs reveal more about Llewyn than his words ever could. The film does not romanticize the struggling artist. It shows cold rooms, borrowed couches, missed chances and a talent trapped outside the right moment. Llewyn feels like a Bob Dylan from the wrong side of time, close to the future but unable to enter it. The Coen brothers turn that cruelty into strange hope. He fails, falls and gets hurt, yet still returns to sing. The film is sad, funny and quietly beautiful because it understands that continuing can be its own form of victory. See more S. O @Col._Angus Jun 6 This is an entertaining period piece, set in 1961 in the West Village of Manhattan. That said, it doesn't have a deep plot. An adventurous cat was supposedly inserted into the screenplay to give it some sort of plot/continuity. Btw, the music in this movie is fantastic See more Ben W @Username618 Jun 2 Watch Kedi instead- better cats. So. The Coen bros were my favourites growing up- swear by. I then... had to account for myself. Couldn't. Swear at. If I'm being serious, and it's a difficult thought to express... I view their work less as a completed work, more as their telling us how they've been doing, suffused with what they've been reading; aaaand. I just find the contempt a bit stifling, sorry. Oeuvre. Making crime novels into film- Dashiell Hammet (Glass Key/ Miller's Crossing), Raymond Chandler (Long Goodbye/Big Lebowski), James M Cain (Postman always.../Man who was not...) , ... Fargo, Blood Simple. Making novels ?- True Grit; No Country for Old Men. Inside Llelwyn Davis, O Brother. A serious man. Barton Fink. Trying to be funny / screwball ? comedy- and just about succeeding; Hudsucker Proxy , Raising Arizona. And failing miserably: The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading. See more Tom F @RT55173143 Mar 29 B-list Coen Bros is better than no Coen Bros at all. Oscar Isaac is a surprisingly good folk singer. See more Mike M. @MikePerhaps Mar 2 It’s amazing how big minor masterpieces can be. Top 5 Coens brothers film. And in conversation with being one of the best music films of all time-time. See more Read all reviews

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