Sometimes the exact movie you needed at that exact moment naturally comes along and there's really no better feeling in the world. Don't know where Inside Llewyn Davis has been all my life, but I'm glad it showed up now.

a hell of a lot of truth in this. a hell of a lot of truth. broad cuts at the divide between living & simply being alive, but perhaps more than anything else a gently devastating look at how people change (or how they don't). need to let this one kick around (and will surely revisit a ridiculous number of times over the years) but already comfortable saying that it's up there with the the Coen brothers' very best.

97/100

An odyssey through cigarette smoke, carrying a lonely soul from couch to couch and from disappointment to disappointment. Chilly, wintry cinema, packed with typical Coens humor (I could listen to Mulligan rant about condoms for days) but also distanced from the crisp time-period that it's depicting. Like the Coen Brothers have said, there's no need to parody the folk genre as everything is right up there on the screen, but there's still a plethora of swelling comfort and unwelcoming depression to be found, sliding a detailed character study into the aura of a peculiar environment. My favorite Coen Brothers film, and if I had to pick one reason why, I'd point you to the moment where an orange tabby cat experiences the rush of the subway for the first time, following the rapid lights as they strobe into oblivion.

poe dameron, kylo ren, & justin timberlake sing a song about not wanting to go to space AND there's a very cute cat ... what more could u ask for honestly

"Llewyn is the cat."

Even richer on second viewing. I feel you could watch this movie 100 times and not reach bottom. I laughed more, and I was moved more, and one performance choked me up more.

Someone needs to do a video essay putting the opening and closing scenes side by side, comparing and contrasting each shot and line reading, and examining what's changed and what stays the same, and why.

Great soundtrack and even greater acting from Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligans on screen chemistry.

this should be something i really like but i came away not very interested in the story. but i do love the performances, especially oscar isaac of course

“Llewyn is the cat.”
”No, Llewyn has the cat.”

When we do eventually learn the cat’s name, it’s both a great joke and exactly what we’d expect. And if it was never knew and it never gets old, it’s a folk song.

I’m tired. I thought I just needed a night’s sleep but it’s more than that. 

Felt that. But hearing Oscar Isaac sing made me happy for a second.

a movie about floating. disturbingly cyclical, disturbingly relatable.

watching my comfort movie with a friend and sharing our thoughts and theories during it was the Best

getting to watch it again with a friend and share our thoughts during the movie made for an amazing experience

Wow. This is the perfect movie that I needed to watch right now. Definitely up there with the Coen brothers best.

Inside Llewyn Davis holds me strongly throughout the whole film. His struggles, his ups, and downs all resonate so well with all of our struggles. Although, the movie does not shy away from depicting Llewyn as an “unlikable character”, he remains as a character I would like to cheer on as I see my very self in Llewyn’s everyday struggles. Llewyn completely changes once he picks up the guitar and the film gives a lens into why these songs are being sung and how the lyrics impact his life. There’s a movie that you pick up at the right time in your life and I have to say this is one of them for me.