Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

mathmaniac Garrett HedlundYes, I'd have to say that watching this film was worth seeing Garrett Hedlund. I have liked his voice since hearing him sing in the film 'Country Strong.' Other than that, this was a dreary, sad, grim depiction of NYC life - and fairly accurate if you do have to be in that city when the sun is not shining and you don't happen to live in one of the fancier boxes they call apartments or even houses. The main character is unlikeable - so unlikeable that I did not want to learn the pronunciation of his name. I did not care. Lucky for the audience, the scriptwriters stress the pronunciation of his name half-way through the movie so that you have to remember it. Is it important to like the main character? No. But it helps to have some shred or spark of charm to catch your attention. I'm a bit familiar with folk music and live coffee-house folk music. I'm more than a bit familiar with the Hootenanny generation (that was my generation). I even have a relative who sings in coffee houses and writes songs. It is that dreary, yes - scrambling to play for a pittance. Only the very devoted and dedicated stay with it hoping to someday have a life that allows them to pay rent money from this kind of work. Having Bob Dylan sing in the coffee house at the end was the perfect wrap-up to this film for me. His voice is very cat like, twangy, even yowl-y as a cat might yowl. He is a song writer but a crappy singer. Still, a very successful one.Which should inspire all Llewyn-type characters: if Dylan can sing and twang his vocal chords as well as guitar chords with fabulous success, so can you!

coledarcysoderstrom I instantly fell in love with this film though it is an acquired taste. It doesn't have much of a plot and is extremely character based and that works for me because I love character films but it may not work for other people. The script is fantastic and the Cohen brothers are becoming my favourite filmmakers. Inside Llywen Davis is a film about a folk singer in Grennich Village trying to get his music career of the ground after the death of his partner. The music is great and I wouldn't consider myseld a fan of folk music but I love the soundtrack. The acting is great and Oscar Issac is great at performing very cynical characters. It's one of the best films of 2013 and I highly suggest you watch even if your more of a fan of plot based movies

Josh Larson I'm not sure what all the talk was about this movie. I love the Coen Brothers, but I just didn't get this one. I kept waiting for it to click, like so many of their movies, but this one I just kept waiting and waiting and it never clicked. Maybe it was over my head? Maybe I need to watch it again, but I really don't want to.

framptonhollis The Coen Brothers have impressed me yet again with this dark, emotional, and beautiful comedy-drama about life, love, music, and cats. It's a heavy film at times, and a hilarious one at others. Throughout the film the Coen's show off their talent for filmmaking to much success. Every ingredient of this film is put together in such a way that it forms an impactful, funny, and original masterpiece. A film that I recommend to anyone with a heart and soul, this is one of the most realistic, yet, at times, somewhat surrealistic films that I have ever seen. The performances are all excellent, especially Oscar Issac who fills his performance as the wonderfully three dimensional character of Llewyn Davis with all of the emotion and complexity necessary for the likable and, at times, horrible main character. Other stunning performances come from John Goodman-whose performance is extremely funny, Carey Mulligan- whose performance is extremely emotional and, at times, downright despicable, and Adam Driver-whose performance is quite brief but is still manages to be pleasingly quirky and humorous. This is a very different and beautiful film, the type of film that you don't come across all too often, but when you do, it's like buried treasure.