Manhattan (1979)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.1/10   

Director:

Woody Allen

Escritores:

Woody Allen (written by) &
Marshall Brickman (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 abril 1979 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Woody Allen's New Comedy Hit

Plot:

A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.

Plot Keywords:

Divorced | Writing | Manhattan | Writer | Ex Wife

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Rhapsody in NYC

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 6

8:00 PM

TCM

Reparto

Woody Allen	...	Isaac Davis
Diane Keaton	...	Mary Wilkie
Michael Murphy	...	Yale Pollack
Mariel Hemingway	...	Tracy
Meryl Streep	...	Jill Davis
Anne Byrne Hoffman	...	Emily Pollack (as Anne Byrne)
Karen Ludwig	...	Connie
Michael O'Donoghue	...	Party Guest Dennis
Victor Truro	...	Party Guest
Tisa Farrow	...	Party Guest
Helen Hanft	...	Party Guest Helen
Bella Abzug	...	Guest of Honor
Gary Weis	...	Television Director
Kenny Vance	...	Television Producer
Charles Levin	...	Television Actor #1

También conocida como:

Manhattan (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

96 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Portugal:M/12 | Canada:18A (Ontario) | UK:12A (re-rating) (2006) | Netherlands:AL | Brazil:12 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Ireland:18 | Norway:16 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:15 (video rating) (1987) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:R | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

Trivialidades:

Presentations of this film on television (broadcast, cable or home video) required preservation of the widescreen format. This presented a problem in the U.S. since certain F.C.C. technical regulations did not permit a portion of the screen to be left blank as in letterboxing. The problem was solved by making the area above and below the frame gray. The regulations have since been changed and letterboxing with black borders is now permitted.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: Camera and crew reflected on passing cars while following Isaac running down the street.

Citas:

Isaac Davis: I feel like we're in a Noel Coward play. Someone should be making martinis.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Sesión continua (1984)

Banda de Sonido:

Embraceable You

Rhapsody in NYC

Manhattan is an exhilarating American romance set against the backdrop of New York of the late 70's: my favorite New York, the New York of painters, poets, punks, and Pauline Kael. Three great, very American talents -- Woody Allen, Gordon Willis, and George Gershwin -- intertwine their respective gifts to create a comedy that manages to satisfy both the brain and the heart, and even, perhaps, the lower regions.

Allen is so brainy and such a nebbish that he can get away with gestures that would be painfully sentimental in the hands of any other director: when he begins the movie with fireworks cut to Gershwin, it isn't to soften you up for a soap opera, but to remind you that however much his neuroses may seem to drive the scenes, its the love of New York that drives the movie.

The entire cast is note perfect: Meryl Streep as his caustic bisexual ex-wife, Diane Keaton as a nervous journalist from Philadelphia, and especially Mariel Hemingway, whose performance as Allen's 17-year old girlfriend is charming, heartbreaking, and wise.

Allen's comedy here is at its absolute finest. The fact that it is interwoven with a genuinely moving love story told with a subtlety and indirection that is unheard of in today's mainstream cinema only makes the laughs that much richer.

Gordon Willis' cinematography is good enough for the Museum of Modern Art. Scene after scene leaves a grin on your face as his moving (in both senses) black and white photography floats across the screen.

And finally underlying everything is the music of George Gershwin, whose exubertant melodies propel the movie forward at every turn.

This is Woody Allen's best movie, a great movie, and an American movie in the best sense. As an homage to the city of New York it will surely remain unsurpassed.