#6: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Coen Brothers’ melancholy tale of a struggling folk singer winds through smoky clubs and subway platforms in early ‘60s Greenwich Village. Inside Llewyn Davis captures a pre-fame, pre-gentrified New York where music still simmered underground. The snow, the gloom, the aching harmonies, all of it conjures a mood of quiet defeat and fleeting beauty. A soft echo of a scene just before it exploded.
