Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Llewyn is treading water as a starving folk singer -- he spends nights on couches and pisses off his family and gets women pregnant -- but he’s a talented singer, so most put up with him. This is a look at a few days in Llewyn’s life. He loses a friend’s cat, he plays a studio session on another friend’s song, he finds a cat, he hitches to Chicago and back, he tries to quit music and go back to the merchant marines, he visits his fatherin a nursing home…

Lots of minutiae but it works because Oscar Isaac works. Great soundtrack, too.

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