Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Max Casella
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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.
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A deeply melancholic and often bleak journey through a cold 1960s New York winter. It feels like a quiet, aimless drift through the life of a perpetually struggling artist, punctuated by moments of dark humor and beautiful, mournful folk music. A pervasive sense of quiet desperation hangs heavy in the air.
melancholicbleakapatheticdarkly humorouswistfulslow-burnneo-realist folk dramaunderstated dark comedy1960s period piececharacter studyartistic struggleexistential angstfailurelonelinessthe weight of talent
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