![]() Showing pristine prints of Barbara Stanwyck movies. Hollywood Mexican food, the edenic sands of Malibu, and ornate movie houses Veronica, or Vonnie, played by a luminous Kristen Stewart. Once Phil does see the fellow, he makes him anĮrrand boy, and outsources overseeing his social life to agency secretary One of the movie’s few sour notes, Anna Camp’s game efforts as an inexperienced The time of day that he doesn’t see him for a week, during which time Bobbyĭecides, with long-distance encouragement from Ben, to sample the localĬall-girl culture, leading to a “ Deconstructing Harry”-reminiscent scene that’s ![]() Uncle Phil is so busy, and/or uninterested, in giving his nephew Young Allen stand-in, albeit a little more New York street-smart and selfĭetermined. Idea, but Allen’s discursive mode is not unpleasant, and it does in fact payĪs for Bobby himself, Eisenberg initially plays him as a This will come to bear on Bobby’s adventures a whole continent away we have no While his older brother Ben ( Corey Stoll) is an aggressive gangster. The same anecdotal detail that he used to such great effect in the older film.īobby’s sister Evelyn ( Sari Lennick) is married to a philosophical academic, Speaking of “Radio Days,” Allen limns Bobby’s family with The fact that the energetic young man hasn’t the faintest idea of what he wants Is headed out to the West Coast, and that Phil should help set him up, despite Older sister Rose ( Jeannie Berlin), matriarch of a clan right out of Allen’sġ987 “ Radio Days,” informing him that her youngest son Bobby ( Jesse Eisenberg) Phone call, is a major player and contented fat cat. ( Steve Carell), seen at poolside “holding court” before being interrupted by a Here, Allen tells us in his voiceover narration, that talent agent Phil Stern Out of the park) have a very particular vision of 1930s Hollywood, despiteĪllen’s well-known and well-worn antipathy toward Los Angeles in general. Working, as is Allen, for the first time in the digital format, and knocking it Allen, production designer Santo Loquasto,Īnd cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (the legendary camera maestro here The opening image of “Café Society” sets the tone: aīreathtaking shot of an impossibly clear-blue swimming pool at dusk, surroundedīy elegant people in formal wear. In Paris” and this week’s “Café Society”-are among the most beguiling in his Which is possibly the reason that his most recent films set there-“Midnight There is one aspect ofĮarthly existence for which he has a demonstrable soft spot, however, and that Quietly insistent cynicism (he would say “realism”) about the futility of humanĮndeavor in a meaningless, godless universe, and stuff. ![]() In both his work and his interviews, Woody Allen shows a
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