At the movies: meet the man of your dreams ** Woody Allen |
Freida Pinto |
We can say that is one of the less beautiful film by Woody Allen? But sorry to say, especially to me that I love Woody Allen, despite his obvious and overt decline ... But he made the film so wonderful that it is forgivable, especially at 75 years.
And to think that this movie had great potential that expresses the power of illusions that we desperately need to give meaning to our lives and our actions, to try to win (in vain) the much-hoped-for happiness. Ending
then be content with a bit of 'wretched of serenity ...
short realism, pure cynicism and disillusionment.
Yet, despite these splendid premises, the last work of Woody Allen is noiosetto and obvious, we already know where it goes to parry: Alphie (Anthony Hopkins) does not escape unscathed from its crisis of old age leaving his wife same age (Gemma Jones) and marrying a comely and insipid escort, we know that her daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) are unlikely solve his marital crisis and equally difficult to crown his illusory love affair with the handsome gallery owner (Antonio Banderas), her husband Roy (Josh Brolin) will get with the new neighbor (Freida Pinto) but in this case no will achieve full satisfaction. Only the picturesque wife Alphie will find a loving kind of happiness with an equally strange character. Difficult to enact what is love and human solidarity as ...
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Josh Brolin and Naomi Watts |
All these characters live, however, although for a moment, the illusion of happiness.
meet the man of your dreams is strangely slow and not too funny, nor exceptionally fun in bars, it is so steeped in glossy bitterness. It does not have the pace of some of the film director. It 'a kind of repetition, the most disconsolate of Whatever Works and send us all the fear of aging and loneliness, which surely is haunting Woody Allen.
Therapeutic ... but just for him.
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