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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
March 7, 2015  | By David Bianculli

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

I really like this 2013 Coen Brothers film – and love the music, which is evocative of the Greenwich Village folk scene just before Bob Dylan hit it big. Oscar Isaac stars as a struggling, volatile folkie, and the movie makes a lot more sense, at least to me, once you see it as employing the structure of a traditional folk song. Lots of different verses framed by an opening and closing that, by the time it repeats at the end, makes a lot more sense.

 
 
 
 
 
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