If the couple who are at the heart of A Rainy Day in New York is young, the film is not strictly speaking a film about young people. Ashleigh (Elle Fanning) and Gatsby (Timothée Chalamet) may be in their early twenties, they both embody the archetypes of Woody Allen’s cinema – she the cultured and naive apprentice journalist, provincial with inalienable enthusiasm, he the disenchanted Cartesian, son of a good family who hardly tastes the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
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Ashleigh and Gatsby are students and share the same taste for an elitist culture. When the young girl gets an interview for a university magazine with a great director, Roland Pollard (Liev Schreiber), her lover decides to concoct a romantic New York weekend for her. But hardly arrived in Manhattan, the couple will be separated thanks to an improbable succession of unexpected events. Faced with Pollard’s despair, certain that her last film is a total failure, Ashleigh will find herself embroiled in an attempt to re-inflate her ego which will see her meet a cuckold screenwriter (Jude Law) then a model and actor with irresistible charm ( Diego Luna); Gatsby, he will reconnect with the sister (Selena Gomez) of a former girlfriend before being forced despite himself to attend his parents’ annual gala evening.
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