Creepy rip off of a fine musician.

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2014)

OK, this is, but is not, all about Dave VanRonk, an excellent and entirely distinctive musician. Of course it isn't about him at all it's a fiction, which was why Leewyn's album cover is a direct imitation of one of Dave VanRonk's album covers, except that Dave's, if memory serves, is green and black while Llewyn's is red, otherwise it's the same pose. I can only guess who some of the other characters are, or are not, except for the obvious Clancy Brothers imitation and a couple of others.
The problem is that the whole thing seems, in the first place, entirely pointless while, at the same time, in the second place, leaving you with an unpleasant feeling of going through a dead man's private property. Had there been any learning or changing of the characters in the course of the story, as my seventh grade teacher taught me there should be, all this raking through the late Mr. VanRonk's life (except of course we are told that it isn't really his life) might have made some sort of sense. As it is there is nothing to this story worth watching. Nobody wins and nobody is saved.
Go buy a Dave VanRonk album instead. I suggest for starters, Inside Dave VanRonk.