Woody Allen, who has been banned from Meetoo’s channel, is leaving on Wednesday Rifkin Festival, a comedy about an aging, sardonic and neurotic moviegoer. This new film seems to be a testament to the New Yorker, who admitted his desire to hang up his gloves. The director has had difficulties in financing his films for several years. obstacles piled up after her adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, accused her of sexually abusing her as a child. Neither of the two investigations that began were successful, and Woody Allen denies it altogether.
Rifkin Festival, which is available online and in several theaters in the United States, will not be shown until Wednesday in France, one of the countries where the public is most loyal to the filmmaker, at the opening of the San Sebastián festival, two years after its release (Spain). Filmed on location, it features one Mort Rifkin, a failed and hypochondriac writer. Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, close to Woody Allen and used to supporting roles, plays this Jewish intellectual obsessed with women, religion and the meaning of life;
A former film professor and lover of the great European directors of the 20th century and the New Wave, Rifkin travels to San Sebastian to accompany his wife, Sue (Gina Gershon). He suspects that the latter, a film press officer, is in touch with the fashionable director with whom he deals and for whom he has the greatest disdain, Philip (Louis Garrel, perfect as the film director’s head-slapping and nonchalant. );
A nod to 20th century European cinema
In turn, Mort will fall in love with another woman, Jo (Elena Anaya), a cardiologist much younger than him, whom he will consult on any pretext before trying to free her from her husband’s passionate but brutal abuse. an artist played by Sergi Lopez. In 86 the authorAnnie Hall and: Manhattan does not go out of the way. The host is occasionally delicious, but the situations are slightly off-kilter in comedy to pay homage to 20th century European auteur cinema.
Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut, Buñuel… The film sprinkles the great directors respected by Woody Allen, the one who forces his character to say sorry for modern cinema, that in the history of cinema. “The Europeans came and the movies came of age”.
Allen himself appeared tired during an interview with actor Alec Baldwin on the latter’s Instagram account at the end of June, where he did not rule out his 50th film, which he will shoot in Paris, the last one in September. “I’ll probably make the extra film, but a lot of the excitement has evaporated.”he blurted out. “I don’t really enjoy making a movie and showing it on the big screen anymore”he added, referring to the arrival of streaming.
He dares everything!
Claude Lelouch
Woody Allen looks like the character Rifkin Festival, overwhelmed by the developments taking place in the world around him and only finding refuge in the classics of the 7th art. In the film, Rifkin dreams, in black and white colors, reproducing the cult scenes of his favorite films in a pastiche mode. Jules and Jim the time Man and womanuntil completed, as in Seventh sealplaying chess with death (played by Christoph Waltz)… who orders him to watch his cholesterol to delay the deadline.
Crossed at a private screening of the film in Paris, director Claude Lelouch smiled at the New Yorker’s cheeky homage to his cinema. “He dares anything.”missed, leaving the session.
Source: Le Figaro
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