Joel and Ethan Coen didn’t even have to show up at Cannes to make a big impression.
The Coen brothers’ new movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” was the talk of the Croisette on Saturday, even though it doesn’t have its public premiere until Sunday at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. On a day when Arnaud Desplechin’s “Jimmy P.” and Kore-Eda Hirokazu’s “Like Father, Like Son” debuted in competition, all eyes were on the press preview of the Coen’s film about the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.
“The Coens have made what is likely to be one of the best films of the year, and certainly among their own best work,” wrote Sasha Stone at TheWrap.