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Inside Llewyn Davis

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United States, United Kingdom, France · 2013
Rated R · 1h 44m
Director Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund
Genre Drama, Music

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.

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Slant Magazine by Chris Cabin

As played by an eloquently beleaguered Oscar Isaac, Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up since Marge Gunderson.

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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

The Coens have given us a melancholic, sometimes cruel, often hilarious counterfactual version of music history. It's a what-if imagining of a cultural also-ran that maybe tells us more about the truth than the facts themselves ever could.

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IndieWire by Eric Kohn

An ode to art for art's sake, Inside Llewyn Davis is the most innocent movie of the Coens' career, which in their case is a downright radical achievement.

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Film.com by Jordan Hoffman

It’s a character piece, and one of the best and most understated movies I’ve ever seen about the grieving process.

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The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth

Inside Llewyn Davis isn't about someone trying to make it big, but someone just trying to make it, and the Coens celebrate the hard road that can inspire great art.

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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Brilliantly written, terrifically acted, superbly designed and shot; it's a sweet, sad, funny picture about the lost world of folk music which effortlessly immerses us in the period.

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Variety by Scott Foundas

Inside Llewyn Davis is a revelatory showcase for Isaac, who sings with an angelic voice and turns a potentially unlikable character into a consistently relatable, unmistakably human presence — a reminder that humility and genius rarely make for comfortable bedfellows.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

This is a gorgeously made character study leavened with surrealistic dimensions both comic and dark, an unsparing look at a young man who, unlike some of his contemporaries, can’t transcend his abundant character flaws and remake himself as someone else.

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