I have no idea what dissatisfaction, if any, the Coens might be dealing with, but this film gives off the impression that something about creative life has angered them or let them down. Strangely, Llewyn Davis reminded me of Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration, as both films look at an aspect of show business with an anger that suggests that their creators are working through some specific personal pains. Isaac is great in the role and he sings like a dream, but Davis is a character who's pretty much impossible to like, even in the stretch of the film that has him sweetly taking care of a cat who’s suddenly become his responsibility.
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The title character of this new film, on the other hand, is a total jerk, an ungrateful mooch and a self-destructive pessimist who lurches through the movie from one melancholy catastrophe to the next. Scott notes in his New York Times review of Llewyn Davis, in A Serious Man the hero is a hapless victim of a mean and punishing world. Its closest sibling in the Coen family is probably 2009's A Serious Man, though as A. Inside Llewyn Davis traffics in a downtroddenness and a prickliness that’s in some ways crueler than anything in the Coens' previous work. That said, a slight warning for those eager to run out to their local indie haus after work tonight:
Murray Abraham, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake-and gorgeous renditions of old folk songs, which waft down the sublimely realized, lightly stylized streets of 1960s Greenwich Village, it’s a well pedigreed and quirkily tailored film that will likely find its fair share of devoted fans. Boasting a winningly eclectic cast-Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, F. Joel and Ethan Coen’s much-anticipated new folk music film Inside Llewyn Davis arrives in (select) theaters today, borne on a raft of good reviews and festival plaudits.
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