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Best folk fail INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Māori TV, Saturday, 8.30pm
SATURDAY MARCH 28
. The Coen brothers were on form for this portrait of a less-than-successful folk singer in the 1960s. Oscar Isaac is the Eeyore-ish Llewyn Davis, whose musical partner has committed suicide, although he couldn’t even get that right, according to John Goodman’s obnoxious jazz musician: “You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington bridge? Who does that?” It’s a rich area of pathos and lost talent, although it’s not clear if Davis is really talented or just a man out of time; at the end of
