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is terrific as an author visiting Paris with his fiancee and her parents. One evening, he is transported to the past, to a time when the City of Lights teemed with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, Picasso, Bunuel, Dali and other luminaries-- and all of this beautifully done with NO NO NO special fx. The more one knows of literature, painting, and culture the more the enjoyment; but, my young daughter, unknowledgeable of these things as yet, found it very amusing.
There is more clever writing in this film than in twenty other typical American offerings: it IS possible to have an audience uncontrollably laughing without resorting to crudeness, crassness, or violence! Interestingly, though it is prominently featured, the cinematography of Paris isn't exceptional. Still, it is almost another character, and a beautiful one.
Bravo Woody, you still have it in you.
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a terrific fun time with some beautiful costumes,sets,scenes and music plus a nice neat script
Phil
I felt Kathy Bates was too folksy for Stein. Hemingway was a fun cast, but he said the word "true" a dozen times too many. Picasso was a pointless cliche. There were times when I watched Owen Wilson deliver a line in a somewhat similar manner to Woody, but immediately realize how Woody would have done it, which would have been more entertaining.
Edits: 06/27/11
...and found it one of the best films of the year so far.
A great look at Paris and very clever interactions with Wilson/Allen and the great writers and artists of the time.
The more you know about literature and the artists' work, the more you'll appreciate the film.
Then he left naked Polaroids out for her mother to find.
I know we should separate art from the person doing the art.
But there is no power on earth that would ever get me to watch a Woody Allen movie again till the day I die.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
Wrong. Woody Allen was never married to Mia Farrow, and so was never Soon-Yi's legal stepfather, nor did he adopt her. However you view the relationship, at least get the facts straight.
Allen and Farrow's biological son, Ronan Seamus Farrow, said of Allen: "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression. I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children."
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
So he gets a pass on a technicality? They'd been living as a family since she was, what, eight years old?
Good to know that's ok with you.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
According to Soon-Yi, Mia Farrow was violent towards her, so she lived with her adoptive father, Andre Previn. She rarely ever saw Woody Allen, only a couple of times. She only finally spent any time with him when she was 20, at a ball game. This is from a Time magazine interview with her, in 1992. Again, the facts...
dfs
You just failed the voight-kampff.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
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dfs
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being stupid. Her heart was on the right side. Imagine if our young men had had her conscience? 2 million human beings would have escaped slaughter. Diem and Thieu. Were they worth all those lives? Meanwhile, Uncle Ho was beloved by the overwhelming number of his countrymen--- that's why we had such a hard time and had to resort to such brutal, inhuman methods as Phoenix Program and wide-scale B-52 bombing. Those kinds of methods are justified ONLY when one's country is in direct jeopardy. I never found any evidence of a Vietnamese attack on our soil or our foreign interests. Did you? I'm sure you know the Gulf of Tonkin "attack" has been proven to be as phony as Iraq WMD. Fooled twice, were you?
she was dumb enough to marry Mouth of the South.
for their treason. But it does help if you win the war. I wonder how the Cambodians feel about Kissinger.....
fds
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
for the conditioning of two generations of American women; she is the Godmother of the female workout. Every time you see a foxy MILF, thank Jane......
maybe Stiffler's mom a decade ago before she got, uhhhh, big. Jane just doesn't do it for me. And Barbarella, her greatest accomplishment, was pre MILF.
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
I prefer the more gentlemanly "Yummy Mummy."
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand
fsd
and that Woody could have well filled in himself. Well, I saw that as the point of Owen's performance...he WAS Woody himself! I just saw so much of Woody's mannerisms and quirks in Owen. It's as if Woody sat back and said "How would I do this scene?" and then directed Owen to do the same.
the quirks,ticks, timing and uh,... pauses... based on HIS performances from decades past seem to inflict far too many of the actors in his recent (past 15 years) films.
It gets to be a drag and just seems another manifestation of his completely self absorbed and damaged personality.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
I can see the parrallels with Woody Allen but still this was a pretty typical Owen Wilson performance. When it fits it's charming and when it doesn't it's anoying. I think it mostly fit. But it was vintage Owen Wilson
naturally. I thought his performance was a strong point in the film-- and I'm no fan of much of Owen's work. He takes the "aw-shucks" stuff too far for me.
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