10 Movies With Annoyingly Abrupt Endings

10. "Au Revoir" - Inside Llewyn Davis

The Coen Brothers are renowned for their abrupt endings: sometimes they work, as in the case of No Country for Old Men and A Serious Man, and sometimes they don't - a point made evident by their otherwise excellent film Inside Llewyn Davis.

Llewyn Davis is a movie about a pretty good musician who unsuccessfully navigates the American folk music scene in the 1960s (also: there's a cat). The film ultimately ends with Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) being beaten up in an alley for heckling a guy's wife the night previously during a gig, who proceeds to kick the sh*t out of him before jumping in a taxi cab and disappearing into the night. "Au revoir," he tells Llewyn, disappearing into the night.

The problem with this, however, is that instead of ending at even a remotely satisfying mark, Inside Llewyn Davis just stops. That the Coens implemented this abrupt finale on purpose goes without saying; it's supposed to signal the fact that Llewyn will never progress in his attempts to make it big, ending exactly where he started. He's destined to be kicked into the gutter, time and time again.

This doesn't make it any less frustrating or abrupt, however. Some films require fuller resolutions in order for them to work as a whole, and in spite of the deeper meaning but this one, Inside Llewyn Davis's ending still needed more.