Dark comedy, intellectual talks and piano bar(ish)-lounge(ish)- jazz(ish) tunes in the background... A combination that screams Woody Allen!
I actually didn't read any of the critics review, but as people talks seems like they didn't enjoyed the movie at all... But, it is Woody Allen playing his game, and he knows how to play it!
The philosophical debate and the murder comedy appear in many of the texts, not always together, but always through a comedic prism... And it is on top of everything, more than just enjoyable...
Woody puts on screen, in a light way, many big debates about morality, philosophy, human interactions and psychology... Those ingredients can make some heavy dramas, incredibly deep, but in the wrong hands, the most boring picture yet to be seen... COULD WOODY ALLEN DO A HEAVY DRAMA ABOUT THOSE POINTS AND NOT S*CK? I don't know...
But why to think in a drama? Woody is one of the very few (if not the only) movie makers in activity (or of all time) that isn't just not afraid of doing black comedy, but knows how to do it well! A breakdown, a murder, an adultery... Those are not the funniest situations, but that doesn't means that it can be fun! (In fiction of course!)
The dialogs were all that lovely Woody Allen's dialog... The production design were amazing and the photography pretty fine... The soundtrack was the icing on the cake...
The acting was just fine... Phoenix, Stone and Posey did a decent job but nothing that blows anyone's mind... I do think that is hard to give a big performance in a Woody Allen's movie cause all the characters are always so much Woody Allen, that must be hard to portray it perfectly... Is the second movie in a row that Emma Stone works with woody in a lead role, and I would like to see more of that...
To finish... Irrational Man was a delight in many ways and I'm already looking forward to what he'll deliver to that man kind next year!
I actually didn't read any of the critics review, but as people talks seems like they didn't enjoyed the movie at all... But, it is Woody Allen playing his game, and he knows how to play it!
The philosophical debate and the murder comedy appear in many of the texts, not always together, but always through a comedic prism... And it is on top of everything, more than just enjoyable...
Woody puts on screen, in a light way, many big debates about morality, philosophy, human interactions and psychology... Those ingredients can make some heavy dramas, incredibly deep, but in the wrong hands, the most boring picture yet to be seen... COULD WOODY ALLEN DO A HEAVY DRAMA ABOUT THOSE POINTS AND NOT S*CK? I don't know...
But why to think in a drama? Woody is one of the very few (if not the only) movie makers in activity (or of all time) that isn't just not afraid of doing black comedy, but knows how to do it well! A breakdown, a murder, an adultery... Those are not the funniest situations, but that doesn't means that it can be fun! (In fiction of course!)
The dialogs were all that lovely Woody Allen's dialog... The production design were amazing and the photography pretty fine... The soundtrack was the icing on the cake...
The acting was just fine... Phoenix, Stone and Posey did a decent job but nothing that blows anyone's mind... I do think that is hard to give a big performance in a Woody Allen's movie cause all the characters are always so much Woody Allen, that must be hard to portray it perfectly... Is the second movie in a row that Emma Stone works with woody in a lead role, and I would like to see more of that...
To finish... Irrational Man was a delight in many ways and I'm already looking forward to what he'll deliver to that man kind next year!