by Marianne Lehmann
Carey Mulligan who played the character of singer Jean was stunning the public with her neon-yellow Dior dress, grey high heels, wearing a contrasting carmine red lips. She appeared fresh and cool on the redcarpet – with a heartwarming smile and sparkling eyes, posing for the several photographers, answering their questions with patience and fervor despite the cold and freezing weather.
Oscar Issac who played the main character of Llewyn Davis looked quite handsome in his dark grey suit. John Goodman invested a lot of his time to give autographs and to talk to his fans – a real sweetheart of a man.
The film is an artwork – not differently expected from the Coen brothers Joel and Ethan. Combining deliciously melancholy and hilarity into a star menue which is showing the story of the talented but poor and haunted folk musician Llewyn, trying to make it in the big apple during the 60s in the Greenwich Village folk music scene.
Despite his talents Llewyn seems to be on a constant struggle to make it as a musician: he meets a married couple, musicians as himself, and ends up in a personal calamity by getting the wife pregnant.
Being on a quest and the search of the velvet gold, the musical dream, he travels to a music mogul…but it rather might be a quest to find oneself.
The Coen brothers have made themselves a name starting their hugely successful career with “Simple Blood” and growing a reputation of being geniuses with productions like “O Brother, where are thou”, “Fargo” and “The Big Lebowski” – to name a only a few examples of their award winning films. “Inside Llewyn Davis” is no exception in the row of those brilliant films. In fact, the review page “metacritics” shows a 94% positiv feedback and reviews. To have a look yourself, click here.
The greyish shade of “Inside Llewyn Davis” generated by the poetry of pictures turns the film almost into a mythologic epos, portraying an artists/heroes quest for recognition, a mans search for his manhood and a human need to achieve ones dream and earning a livelyhood.
