Glossing over the Coen's filmography confirms my immediate sentiment after finishing Inside Llewyn Davis. I have never been moved by one of their films. That is not what they do. They craft tales that shy the beaten path, fill them with semi-human characters and embrace the style they are working in wholeheartedly.

Inside Llewyn Davis has all the hallmarks of a Coen film. With one trump up its sleeve causing me to allow this film to grip me, shake me and leave me the same way it leaves its protagonist. With a wry smile and an empty heart. That trump is Llewyn Davis and his portayer, Oscar Isaac, who gives one of the best performances of that year.

With the…

I'll keep this short (I love how I say it as if all of my reviews are incredibly in-depth and lengthy) since I feel like I'll be passing out from exhaustion at any moment, but finally got around to watching this. I've been looking forward to seeing the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis ever since I first heard about it, which is usually how it is for me whenever they have a new film coming out. But this is definitely my favorite film of theirs since No Country For Old Men back in 2007 (not saying that I didn't enjoy everything in-between).

I feel like pretty much everything about it this film is perfect, to me at least. Despite it's…

Like many of their protagonists, the Coen brothers make films that aren’t always easy to love. Although a great admirer of the duo and their unique brand of cinema there are only a handful of their films that I truly adore and most of those took more than one viewing to appreciate. As such it might take me a while to decide where Inside Llewyn Davis sits amongst the rest of their work even if its undeniable qualities shine through from its opening moments.

Loosely inspired by a chapter in the life of folk singer, Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis is a melancholic journey through the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early ‘60s following the titular Llewyn Davis,…

10/10
"I'm tired. I thought I just needed a night's sleep but it's more than that."

I get sad. I know this isn't big news. Everyone gets sad. But I feel as if people don't like really like to talk about negative emotions unless it's anger, frustration, or disgust. Everybody always talks about keeping things positive. But sometimes, you need to talk about being sad. I feel as if people who have a platform or a good amount of followers need to express this as a way to make others not feel alone. So here I go. 

I get very sad. I sometimes feel bad about myself, how I look, how others look at me, how others talk about me,…

10/10 (An all time favourite)
"Because it never gets old and it never gets new and it’s a folk song”
Have I just seen the perfect film? Is Inside Llewyn Davies a perfect and complete vision of the Coen Brothers? Though this film is for sure not my favourite film of all time it one of the best crafted and made. The Coen Brothers have gotten to such sophisticated levels in their film-making careers it’s as if they have it down to a science. Every zoom, long shot and close-up feels deliberate and necessary to the story but the real star here is the story. Just like the folk songs he plays the story is universally relatable and true, it’s…