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- WATCHING a film created by the Coen brothers is like reading a book written by Charles Dickens. So colourful are the characters in films such as "Raising Arizona", "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men", so distinctive are their faces and memorable their turns of phrase, that they ought to be implausible caricatures. Yet they are always steeped in brutal realism, making them as painful to watch as they are amusing.
In no film by Ethan and Joel Coen is this more true than in their latest, "Inside Llewyn Davis". This tragicomic snapshot of the Greenwich Village folk-music scene in the 1960s is a sort of spiritual sequel to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", their amusing and tuneful take on Homer’s "The Odyssey".