Review: Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" is an impossibly rich triumph
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Inside Llewyn Davis is at once both a painfully honest portrait of what it feels like to be artistically spent, and a beautiful artistic masterwork impossibly rich with greatness. It tells the story of a frustrated folk singer in what may be the last week of his struggling career, but seems to exist at the height of creative ascendency for filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who always seem to me to have nowhere to go but down before coming back and maintaining, if not climbing even higher still.
Review: Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" is an impossibly rich triumph
Review: Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis…
Review: Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" is an impossibly rich triumph
Inside Llewyn Davis is at once both a painfully honest portrait of what it feels like to be artistically spent, and a beautiful artistic masterwork impossibly rich with greatness. It tells the story of a frustrated folk singer in what may be the last week of his struggling career, but seems to exist at the height of creative ascendency for filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who always seem to me to have nowhere to go but down before coming back and maintaining, if not climbing even higher still.