Casting conundrum solved, Coen brothers go ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

BEVERLY HILLS, California, Dec 4:  Leave it to the prolific filmmaking pair Joel and Ethan Coen to create their own movie conundrum, and engineer (or maybe luck) their way out of it. For their new film, ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ the brothers Coen painted themselves into this corner: They needed an actor for the title role of a struggling folk singer in the early 1960s who could carry an entire movie, be in every scene, convince the audience he was a musician and play songs live in their entirety multiple  times. (agencies)