It's 1961, and aspiring young folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac, 'Drive') is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making.
Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the basket houses of Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club - on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul - and back again.
Brimming with music performed by Isaac, Justine Timberlake ('Runner Runner') and Carey Mulligan ('The Great Gatsby') as Llewyn’s married Village friends, as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers, this film is infused with the sound of another time and place. An epic on an intimate scale, it represents the Coen Brothers’ fourth collaboration with multiple-Grammy and Academy Award-winning music producer T Bone Burnet.