There are stories about romance, stories about heroes, stories about the fall of empires and stories about the forging of them.  And there are stories about life.  Inside Llewyn Davis is the tale of a young man in 1960s New York, a folk singer struggling to pay the bills surfing from one couch to another each night.  In between trying to get his album picked up, an odyssey to Chicago and returning an escaped cat to its owners, we experience Llewyn’s life and his world.

What the Coen brothers have brought is a film based on strong, first hand source material – a film inspired by the life of Dave Van Ronk.  I can’t say that anything really stood out from the film, no strong scene or stand-apart performance.  Instead, the stellar ensemble cast weave a tapestry of the 60s Greenwich folk scene where we flow with the ebb and tide of Llewyn’s story, feeling what he feels as intimately as if it were written just for us.

If you know of Lost In Translation it’s a film such as that; a story you’ll love or hate.  You can find a deeper meaning in this movie if you choose, or you can be spectator to a week in the life of a folk artist.  What you can’t do, is ignore it.  Once you’ve watched this movie you won’t be able to talk about what happened, but instead about how it made you feel.

Inside Llewyn Davis is released in the UK 24th January 2014.

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