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The Amsterdam Film Institute Eye showed this summer (and continues to do so until September 9), a retrospective . comedies of Woody Allen
The filmmaker, who at the end of this year eighty hopes to be, it is still unlikely productive: each year he delivers a new movie
This is his. Total production director for nearly fifty. His 46th and last film, Irrational Man , opened in early July, the retrospective in Eye, after the movie in May at the Cannes Film Festival was premiered.
Depressive teacher
The Irrational Man in the title is Abe Lucas, an extinct philosophy teacher played by Joaquin Phoenix with a lot of passion and a big belly. The depressed teacher will give during the summer semester teaching at the University of Rhode Island.
On the way to his summer job we hear him in his car quote the German philosopher Kant, but Lucas’reputatie has raced ahead of him and this gossip not about his controversial philosophical insights but about his drinking and womanizing.
The potbellied grumbler seems irresistible to loosen maternal feelings in female teachers and students.
Watch the trailer:
Russian roulette
Also at Jill (Emma Stone), who finds her new teacher Abe many times more interesting than her dopey boyfriend Roy (Jamie Blackley). Their relationship is so dull that they give each other sweaters for their birthday, which even in the middle of Rhode Island’s height is of civility
No, Abe:. He submits lesson that philosophy “verbal masturbation “and” bullshit unrelated to the daily reality has to do. “
His provocative behavior borders on self-destruction, especially when at a party casually put a gun to his head to make a game of Russian roulette and then lists a lesson in existentialism. Jill feels called to rescue the suicidal Abe, to the annoyance of her boyfriend Roy.
Muse
While Jill her relationship with Abe strictly platonic tries to keep insists teacher Rita Richards (Parker Posey ) to submit to him without too difficult to do about her intentions: she wants Abe to bed, her marriage still means nothing anymore. If he claims that he is suffering from writer’s block and therefore it impotent, promotes hair that only more and throws them on as his “muse”.
Irrational Man combines some of Allen’s recurring themes, such as flirt with and ridicule of philosophical knowledge and the seemingly brave middle class with their secret desires. Also another common theme in Allen’s work puts in Irrational Man the head again:. The apparent attractiveness of an older man for younger women
Emma Stone is 26, Joaquin Phoenix 41 and looks with his belly even older. Well, Parker Posey may be 46 years, but Emma Stone’s Jill is the one in Irrational Man is really in love with Abe. In the previous Woody All Movie, Magic in the Moonlight , we saw Emma Stone already chummy with fifties Colin Firth
And this is no exception in Woody Allen movies:. In Manhattan (1979), the 17-year-old high school student was Tracy (Mariel Hemingway) falls in love with the 42-year-old Isaac Davis (Woody Allen himself). And Everyone Says I Love You (1996) flirted Allen with the more than 30 years younger than Julia Roberts, while in Hollywood Ending (2002), also 30 years younger Téa Leoni his ex-wife played.
Soon-Yi
Now hefty age differences, of course, the rule rather than the exception in Hollywood and almost always the man is older. In Gangster Squad again played twenties Emma Stone’s gangster lover of fifties Sean Penn. Conversely, the elderly Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford in their films almost always much younger women, just as in real life though.
The latter includes Woody Allen, which as is well known by his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn is married. That happened in 1997; Soon-Yi was 24 years, Allen 62. It resulted in a scandal that early last year nadreunde when Dylan Farrow, another adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, its filmmaker accused that he would have her as a 7-year-old assaulted. Allen denied in all keys and got the benefit of the doubt.
Soon-Yi may now be 42, since all her married there is an unpleasant bijsmaakje to his habit of older men to younger women link in his films.
Voice-over
But whoever does not bother about that has to Irrational Man again a very nice Woody All Film. No classic, but better than the previous one, Magic in the Moonlight , who was very thin and lightweight. The plot of Irrational Man is focused ultimately on whether it is right to kill a bad man when a good man is better for it.
This twist gives the narrative weight , without the cheerful tone from the beginning of the film is lost. Only uitleggerige voiceover is disturbing, but that is compensated by the sweltering Phoenix and fresh Stone, who in the meantime as the new muse of Allen has emerged.
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