Letterboxd — Your life in film

Incredible cat movie. Characterizing Llewyn with his begrudging obligation/genuine care for this cat is such a great little introduction to him, and serves as a wonderful thread to trace throughout the film.

Rife with subtext, which means it only gets better, more tragic on re-watch. I always tear up at the wonderfully complex moment when Llewyn gets angry at the Gorfeins, and then right at the end of that scene is a great joke that pulls me back in.
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I love that this movie exists. I love how willing it is to be weird, take swift turns, and trust that the audience is with it as it follows its dystopian satire logic to its sci fi ends. I love that much of its character conflict is how being a scab makes all of your friends dislike you. I love how so much of the film is about how easy it is for resistance to be corrupted, how existing and…

I'm still not quite sure what I think of this.
Every lead performance in this is wonderful, each of them playing different shades of a tantalizing cypher, a love triangle/obsession triad made more complex through nuanced, odd performances.
There are many moments of breathtaking filmmaking – the way the film will hold on a shot after a character leaves the frame, still moving, or the way the focus shifts away from a character, almost willing him to leave the frame…

An astonishingly subtle and intelligent film. It has such a nuanced understanding of the psychological dynamics of domestic abuse and patriarchal control and manipulation. Bergman is absolutely incredible, her growing exhaustion, her moments of exclamation and defeat. She's doing so much work with her eyes here, it'd be worth re-watching just to track how much of a toll you can see just by the way she moves her eyelids. There are flashy moments in this performance, but so much of…