Was the opening film of the Cannes film Festival. Café Society, Woody Allen, arrives today to portugal. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart starring and the novel
“I’m waiting for a call from Ginger Rogers.” Boasting of an agent to the Hollywood stars, a cocktail in the late afternoon, on the edge of a swimming pool extremely blue, marks the entrance in the new film of Woody Allen. To be pronounced, the great names of the golden age of american cinema circulating in the gossip with the fashionable affectation that the director want to, and underlines, in fact, in a tongue-in-cheek narration in voice over. Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, James Cagney? Never see them, are pure artifice of speech in this Cafe Society, which, by the way, opened the Cannes film Festival in may, and today among us.
Precisely, the man who said to wait for a phone call from Ginger Rogers faced, and on the other side of the line, with the older sister, new york (a social stratum very different), informing him of the trip of his nephew to Los Angeles, looking for a job with him. Steve Carell is the excellence of this interpretation of the agent is “too busy”, that will avoid meeting with the family, until I can do no more to hide… But the story of Cafe Society belongs, indeed, to such a nephew, Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg), a young man who, in those heady years of the 1930s, comes to the land of dreams and see very little to dazzle, not to be the desk of his uncle, Vonnie (Kristen Stewart), a helpful guide that will give you the know the places of the most appreciated of the city. Especially by your company, to understand.
The novel, in the mold that can recognize from other films of Allen, with the character nervous and garrulous of Eisenberg in contrast with the quiet fragility of Stewart, it is designed in perfect notes jazzy, and in a taiwan light amber – that will remain in memory as a reference to the imaginary golden era. Here shows the indelible signature of the renowned Vittorio Storaro (The Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now), the director of photography who collaborates with Allen in this his first foray into the digital format.
After being replaced by the former boyfriend of Vonnie, Bobby returns to New York – in a transition regime between the two cities, similar to what we saw in Annie Hall (1977) – to the centre of the domestic comedy of his jewish family, starting to manage very well frequented night club Café Society, which belongs to the brother gangster. Here is another reminiscence: the confrontation between the pulsion of the experience, the artistic and the criminal underworld, such as we find in Bullets over Broadway (1994).
If all this sounds familiar, the truth is that the cinema of Woody Allen if you will be building in a pleasant reiteration of your topics and writing smart able to them to renew the breath. A written notice, which very much values the actors with his work. After seeing Kristen Stewart in this brilliant role in Cafe Society (to join the movie of Olivier Assayas, Clouds of Sils Maria), even going to remember the Twilight saga? And what about Jesse Eisenberg, clearly in his element? Perhaps no other actor has represented an alter ego so accurate of Allen. If we see here a certain nostalgia of the first jobs of the director of Manhattan, and if the intention is to keep it, we are waiting for the return of this Eisenberg “lost in the world”…
at The age of 80, in the same rhythm of a film per year, Woody Allen continues to provide us with the best novels on the big screen, that there are those that move us, but that leave us in the pleasant sleep between existentialism and love. There is no need more than that.
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