Inside Llewyn Davis

This Coen brothers film enters the world without as much hoorah as their previous films, but it really deserves to be noticed. The story follows roughly a week in the life of Llewyn Davis, a folk singer still dealing with the recent suicide of an old bandmate. He struggles to pay for just about everything and is living the 1960s life of the struggling artist. He journeys there and back again, never really getting anywhere at all. He lives the story of what you hear musicians live, nights of drinking, smoking and stories that you don't believe when people tell you. And there lies the charm of the movie. Inside Llewyn Davis is a tribute to the forgotten in a generation, but possibly even a judgement of it too. While the ending, which is something of a faux twist, provides a little more to the whole perception of the film, the story really explores our current idolisation of a lifestyle that may have run its course. This film doesn't praise the '60s, it shows it. Dull friends, people in it for money, it's a '60s world where 'the man' has won.