In
cinemas now
written & directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Set in
the Greenwich Village folk scene in 1961 Inside Llewyn Davis shows us an
unlucky and fruitless week in the life of a singer whose refusal to compromise
his ideals in exchange for commercial opportunities has seemingly condemned him
to an endless ritual of playing his morbid songs to the same crowd each week at
the small Gaslight Club. In between he crashes on people’s sofas and usually
ends up annoying them forcing him to move on. There are several routes you
imagine the narrative to take and pleasingly it opens out into something like a
road movie albeit one that offers no real reward for its protagonist, unlike
the viewer who comes away richer.
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| Inside Llewyn Davies: One reviewer has described every shot as looking like an album cover. |
