Another Coen Brothers masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2014)

This film is about Llewyn Davis as the title suggests. He is a struggling folk singer in New York in 1961. Played very well by Oscar Issac. He doesn't have a lot of money. He crashes on friends couches. He also has a neighbours cat that got out of their apartment that he starts carrying around the city. The music in this film is great. The Coen's have done music in films very well before, for example, O Brother Where Art Thou? The landscape is bleak in a cold New York winter. Llewyn travels with a jazz musician played brilliantly by John Goodman to audition for someone. The story is a kind of bleak about a folk singer that doesn't really make it.But the Coen's are masters at telling an interesting story that gets to you. Justin Timberlake also stars as fellow folk singer. Carey Mulligan plays an angry woman very well in fact. That Llewyn gets pregnant. This is a great week in the life of what it's like to struggle in the music business. One of the Coen brothers best films.