Stardust Memories (1980)
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis:
A successful film director attends a festival celebrating his work and is torn between three muses as he ponders the significance of his life and art.
Review:
Woody's homage to Fellini (particularly Otto e Mezzo) is much more entertaining than the previous year's one to Bergman, all the better for not taking itself seriously. The avoidance of Bergman here, bolstered by the new acting blood, is evident and intended. Most notable of all is the fragmentation and perpetual play with fantasy past and present reality, and the inevitable fusion of these elements into the film itself, indeed any film: a kind of entertaining version of what Godard does. It poses the same old questions about love and death and answers them, as before, in its own way: artistic expression is obviously the outlet for Allen's persistent doubts and anxieties.
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis:
A successful film director attends a festival celebrating his work and is torn between three muses as he ponders the significance of his life and art.
Review:
Woody's homage to Fellini (particularly Otto e Mezzo) is much more entertaining than the previous year's one to Bergman, all the better for not taking itself seriously. The avoidance of Bergman here, bolstered by the new acting blood, is evident and intended. Most notable of all is the fragmentation and perpetual play with fantasy past and present reality, and the inevitable fusion of these elements into the film itself, indeed any film: a kind of entertaining version of what Godard does. It poses the same old questions about love and death and answers them, as before, in its own way: artistic expression is obviously the outlet for Allen's persistent doubts and anxieties.
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis:
A successful film director attends a festival celebrating his work and is torn between three muses as he ponders the significance of his life and art.
Review:
Woody's homage to Fellini (particularly Otto e Mezzo) is much more entertaining than the previous year's one to Bergman, all the better for not taking itself seriously. The avoidance of Bergman here, bolstered by the new acting blood, is evident and intended. Most notable of all is the fragmentation and perpetual play with fantasy past and present reality, and the inevitable fusion of these elements into the film itself, indeed any film: a kind of entertaining version of what Godard does. It poses the same old questions about love and death and answers them, as before, in its own way: artistic expression is obviously the outlet for Allen's persistent doubts and anxieties.