My Review- Rifkin's Festival
My Rating 7/10
Many of Woody Allen's have slightly narcissistic aspects of his character indulgently and not so subtly written into his scripts and in my opinion this is most apparent in Rifkin's Festival released in 2020.
Wallace Shawn plays a disenchanted New York film critic attending the annual San Sebastián International Film Festival with his elegant wife Sue who is a successful press reporter.
Sue is busy promoting the career of her new protege a handsome French actor named Philippe so Mort has time on his hands .
He's depressed at the state of cinema today and the state of his marriage to Sue so as he wanders around the beautiful boulevards of San Sebastián virtually being ignored by everyone in the business he reminisces to himself about his favourite movies and European film directors.
Woody Allen pays homage to some great European film makers like François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, and Luis Buñuel by making Mort's black and-white celluloid dreams briefly come to life.
It wouldn't be a Woody Allen movie if there wasn't at least one romantic triangle as a result of marital dissatisfaction.
Both Sue and Mort Rifkin become involved in relationships apart from each other.
Sue is besotted by the handsome Phillipe and Mort who is experiencing chest pain becomes besotted by his beautiful Spanish cardiologist Dr Jo Roi.
The question is can Mort's celluloid fantasies turn into reality ?
You will have to watch Rifkin's Festival to find out it's an entertaining and funny film and very beautiful to watch movie.
Many of Woody Allen's have slightly narcissistic aspects of his character indulgently and not so subtly written into his scripts and in my opinion this is most apparent in Rifkin's Festival released in 2020.
Wallace Shawn plays a disenchanted New York film critic attending the annual San Sebastián International Film Festival with his elegant wife Sue who is a successful press reporter.
Sue is busy promoting the career of her new protege a handsome French actor named Philippe so Mort has time on his hands .
He's depressed at the state of cinema today and the state of his marriage to Sue so as he wanders around the beautiful boulevards of San Sebastián virtually being ignored by everyone in the business he reminisces to himself about his favourite movies and European film directors.
Woody Allen pays homage to some great European film makers like François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, and Luis Buñuel by making Mort's black and-white celluloid dreams briefly come to life.
It wouldn't be a Woody Allen movie if there wasn't at least one romantic triangle as a result of marital dissatisfaction.
Both Sue and Mort Rifkin become involved in relationships apart from each other.
Sue is besotted by the handsome Phillipe and Mort who is experiencing chest pain becomes besotted by his beautiful Spanish cardiologist Dr Jo Roi.
The question is can Mort's celluloid fantasies turn into reality ?
You will have to watch Rifkin's Festival to find out it's an entertaining and funny film and very beautiful to watch movie.