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lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2013-05-19 04:50 pm

Singing a Happier Tune in Cannes


By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: May 19, 2013
CANNES, France — The applause for Joel and Ethan Coen’s wonderful new film, a comedy in a melancholic key called “Inside Llewyn Davis,” started someplace around the midway mark. Prompted by the hilariously inane “Please Please Mr. Kennedy,” sung by Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver — who play three bearded 1961 folkies warbling and strumming through a space-race ditty — the Cannes audience started to laugh and clap. By the time the film ended, the clapping, laughing and whooping critics at the 66th Cannes Film Festival were over the moon. Moar

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