beautiful, powerful film

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2017)

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.