Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

This was an odd, little film.
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a homeless folk singer who lives in Greenwich Village New York in 1961. He is poor, his agent pathetic. And several people think he's a complete jerk, namely Jean (Carey Mulligan) who is livid that he slept with her without using a condom. She doesn't blame herself. Plus, she's the one who cheated on her lovely, but possibly homosexual long-term boyfriend, Jim (Justin Timberlake) and now is forced, her words, to have an abortion. I guess she goes through with it. And, yes, Llewyn knew where to find a doctor to perform the illegal act, as he had gotten another woman in trouble before, though this one, never seen, didn't go through with it. He was never told that he had a child, out there somewhere.
Llewyn sleeps on couches and at his first place, the cat accidentally escapes and then escapes again, from Jean and Jim's apartment. He finds the cat, only it isn't the right cat, this one is female. Fortunately, the right cat returns to his loving owners by the end of the film. He also endures a thoroughly fascinating and bizarre car ride to get to Chicago to see another agent (F. Murray Abraham) who thinks he is good but should go back with his old partner, as his voice would work better as a harmony. Too bad his former partner is dead, having thrown himself off a bridge.
The car has two of the oddest companions, Johnny Five (Garrett Hedlund), a man of few words and the opinionated and drug addicted Mr. Turner (John Goodman), who nearly overdoses but Johnny just piles him back into the car and continues with the journey. It is oddly funny.
Then, Llewyn tries to join the merchant marines again, but he can't even afford to do that. He goes back to singing only to heckle a newcomer and gets beat up by her husband, but life moves on.
Sure, the film doesn't have much going on, just an odd week in the life of Llewyn Davis. The singing is very good and hopefully that weird song Llewyn records with Jim and this other guy, Al Cody (Adam Driver) goes big. It is also interesting to see all the authentic sets from the early 60s. The ending is depressing and you just wonder what will happen to the sorry individual. Grade: B+