Llewyn Davis is failing. And he is doing that nearly on the daily. The unsuccessful folk-singer is struggling through New York in the early 60s. He has no money, his music partner committed suicide, he is sleeping every day on a different couch and his latest LP is not selling. Davis is the best example for a stranded musician, talented and without luck.

The movie Inside Llewyn Davis is following the musician through a week of his unsteady life, in which he loses the cat of one of his hosts, gets to know that he is father and travels to Chicago to ask for a gig - unsuccessfully. The film directed, written and produced by the Coen brothers - Ethan and Joel - is a wild mix between music film, road movie, drama and comedy. The dialogues are very witty, and especially actors like Oscar Isaac (Llewyn Davis) and John Goodman (Roland Turner, playing a jazz musician) deliver outstanding performances.

The screenplay is loosely based on the autobiography of Dave Van Ronk, an American folk singer. A lot of songs used in the movie are from Van Ronk's album Inside Dave Van Ronk. At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Inside Llewyn Davis won the Grand Prix and is critically well acclaimed.

The Coen brother's film is funny, smart and melancholic. It sees the two directors in a dark mood, depicting the struggle of an unsuccessful folk singer-songwriter, whose life is merely a disappointment, who is sometimes angry and sometimes full of melancholy. They create a counterpart to Bob Dylan, an Anti-Dylan, who also appears for a short moment on the scene and plays in the same café that Llewyn played in, but the unlucky folk singer misses his performance and gets beaten up at the backdoor.

Inside Llewyn Davis will be on film schedule whole January in Ljubljana's Kinodvor.