Inside Llewyn Davis
(2013)
Guest blogger Laura Burrone:Full disclosure, I’m an unashamed, full-on, complete fan(atic) of the Coen brothers and incapable of an unbiased opinion. Now that that’s out the way, what the heck was that? I want to like this movie, but about midway through the story it was clear that there wasn’t a likable character among them. Even the cat is not himself. It’s a dreary story, with music that makes you want to jump off of the Verrazano Bridge (a nod to John Goodman’s character), but only just so. You can’t take your eyes off this movie, and you can’t wait for the next song. How did they do that?
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| Maynard Ferguson, not Ulysses |
Maybe they Coens have the perfect formula for movie-making. Take various parts of amusing, horrifying, and bewildering but always leave a delicious taste in the mouth and you have the secret to their success.
4 comments:
Dear Cheese, Some of the text seems to have dropped or been jumbled. Can you have a look-see?
Weird--it WAS jumbled, and then I unjumbled before posting, and then it jumbled again. It's Maynard's fault. Anyway, seems OK now, but for the big gap between paragraphs, but I'm afraid to try to do anything about that.
I blame the Coens. They're at it again, mixing things up so we can't follow the thread of logic.
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