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In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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CBS Films StudioCanal Anton Capital Entertainment (ACE) Scott Rudin Productions Mike Zoss Productions
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关于勒维恩·戴维斯, Inside Llewyn Davis - Balada de Um Homem Comum
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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"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.
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wow, the force awakens wouldn't even had happened if poe and kylo's band had just stayed together smh
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Adam Driver is basically the only good thing about this movie, and he is in it for about five minutes. I actually started this one and didn't finish it several years ago, so I decided to get back to it in order to finish the Coen Brothers' work (just missing one now). I remembered early on why I shut it off last time. I suppose the music was fine, though I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of the genre.
Carey Mulligan's character Jean might be my least favorite character in any movie ever. She is just a terrible person. In fact, there are very few likeable characters in this one. Even the titular character, played by Oscar Isaac, is…
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this was wonderful but there are not enough words in the english language to explain how hurt i felt after llewyn left that cat behind
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A film I’ve revisited countless times; returned to the theater to see it twice. This movie is a godsend. Isaac’s performance is searing with soul, heartache, and loss. The musicianship, multi-layered performance, and back-against-the-wind poise remains to be beaten.
If I only had one gripe, it would be the void of Deakins. The photography just doesn’t do it for me. I love the installation of natural light within the frame, and the dusty folk bar scenes.
This film is just amazing and one of the Coens best, in their uncompromisingly great filmography.
Grade: A
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