An elderly American couple is also coming to Spain for the film.
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She (Gina Gershon) is a young director’s PR agent, he (Wallace Shawn) is a small bald academic who has thought that he will be a writer, but does not have the strength and ideas to master the demanding genre of the novel.
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He only talks about literature rather than actually creating it.
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The wife spends time with the director, going to the press, the beach and the bars. The sad husband comments on everything venomously and does not understand why the average director, who only pretends to be high in art, finds fans.
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Elena Anayaová and Wallace Shawn
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After meeting with Spanish doctor Jo Rojas (Elena Anaya), she will grow up. He falls in love with her, but it doesn’t look very promising.
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There really aren’t many reasons why an attractive young tall Spaniard should fall in love with a tiny bald sarcastic grandfather. In fact, there is none but a common interest in film.
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Woody Allen in Rifkin uses twisted motifs. We have an unhappy intellectual in an existential crisis, crumbling relationships and crazy artists and their tense passions. Unfortunately, the hysterical scene with the screaming Dr. Rojas and her husband, an eccentric painter, is almost a copy of part of the older film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, where Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz screamed (and excelled).
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However, Woody succeeded in the dialogues. They are smiling, typically Allen. Buzz full of references to various artists, the Jewish community or the Nazis still entertains, and it doesn’t matter that you’ve seen forty similar films.
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They will also make allusions and parodies of The End of the Breath (Jean-Luc Godard) or The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman) laugh. Sure, they’re intellectual jokes for a limited audience, but that’s almost always the case with Allen.
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Woody Allen can bring nothing new today, to expect a miracle would be foolish. Let us be glad that the eternal seeker of meaning in the nonsensical world has not given up everything yet, and after the eighties he still has the will and strength to please his faithful with a small pleasant film.
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Overall rating: 70%
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