Oscar Isaac in the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis
J.M. Tyree and I reviewed the Coen brothers’ latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, for the February 2014 issue of Sight & Sound. Josh and I co-wrote the BFI Film Classic on The Big Lebowski in 2007 and have covered a bunch of Coen pictures for S&S since then. (Here’s our take on No Country for Old Men.) Our review begins…
On the grand tour of male failure in the Coen brothers’ universe, Inside Llewyn Davis occupies an unusual place. Blood Simple (1983), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1995), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Burn After Reading (2008) are populated by men who court disaster by grasping after bags of cash or illusory notions of success. The protagonist of Inside Llewyn Davis arguably has the opposite problem: his lack of interest in worldly achievement is so pronounced that his life is unravelling into chaos…
Read the full review here. Inside Llewyn Davis is released in the UK today.
