Blowing with the wind

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2019)

Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a guy with a Welsh name who is not going anywhere in the New York folk scene of 1961.
Luck is not on his side, the audience do not connect with him and he is full of self loathing. He couch surfs with friends or people he has just met and he can be very rude to people.
The film opens with Llewyn singing beautifully in a club, he then gets beaten up outside. By the end of the movie we find out why he was beaten up in this bittersweet tale.
Llewyn Davis is in a bit of a mess. His singing partner killed himself. He might had got another woman pregnant. His latest record is not selling and he is on the verge of giving up music. He is lumbered with a cat that has escaped from a house he stayed at, then that goes missing.
The Coen brothers give us an initially interesting character study which ultimately falls flat. Isaac gives a beautiful performance. The film has a blue wintery palette. It signifies Llewyn's cold personality and his frosty relationship with life.