A Spinner Of Sad Songs, Struggling To Sing Past The Gloom

... Jim (Justin Timberlake). The title character of Inside Llewyn Davis starts and ends the film in a little Greenwich Village folk club in 1961, singing the gloomy traditional tune "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me." The song's world-weary protagonist resigns ...

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