Inside Llewyn Davis
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A melancholic portrait of a struggling folk musician adrift in 1960s New York, wrestling with grief, failure, and the impossibility of connection.
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
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