I didn& #39;t like Inside Llewyn Davis very much.

the whole asshole genius starving artist myth is one of those things I don& #39;t really ever need to see again.
kind of like the soundtrack more than the movie, but I think the film& #39;s take on the relationship between art and commerce is...a lot more flexible and interesting than you generally see in film treatments.
when the Coen brothers lean towards literary fiction it& #39;s not good, in general.

I don& #39;t know that they generally have a ton to say beyond, "shit happens". and if the shit happening is genre pulpy goodness, cool! if it& #39;s just miserable people being miserable...less interested.
also watching lots of Coen brothers films in short order it& #39;s really remarkable how few are helmed by women characters (as in, none of them are, right?)
they have ensembles where there are women, and they have films about men...and that& #39;s kind of it.
Fargo& #39;s the closest of those I& #39;ve seen...and Intolerable Cruelty has a het couple as co-leads.
people talk about how sexist Tarantino is, and that& #39;s not wrong necessarily, but he& #39;s got at least four films where a woman is definitely the lead.
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