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The Criminal Complex Line: What Are The Odds That Inside Llewyn Davis Will Turn Out To Be A Crime Movie?

8 April 2012 6:12 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »

Though largely regarded as humorists, directors Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the finest crime movies ever committed to film.  Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, and their adaptation of No Country for Old Men are straight-ahead crime movies enriched with the Coens’ visual style and lip-smacking dialogue.  Even Fargo, though the thick Minnesota dialect draws huge laughs, couldn’t be more of a crime movie.

The Coens, though, have diverted from their crime path here and there, not that you’re going to hear me complaining.  But lighter comedies like their remake of The Ladykillers or their more darkly comical A Serious Man hover around the crime genre like eyewitnesses.  However, their current effort, which began shooting this past February, Inside Llewyn Davis, is an examination of the folk music scene in 1960s Greenwich Village.  This subject matter itself would severely test my enthusiasm if it was anyone but the Coens making it. »

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