Friday 5 January 2018

To Rome With Love (2012 Woody Allen & scr)

Oh... Greta Gerwig... I didn't realise (again).

Judy Davis is great, so natural, so real. Ellen Page also wonderful.

"Go ahead, walk into the propeller."

"In the aquatic world, I've been likened to a spineless jellyfish."

"I'm so tempted to make love to you because of my grand-children."

The whole sequence where Alessandra Mastronardi gets lost and what happens subsequently shows a writer who is not running out of ideas. Though maybe has more than a little in common with the early Fellini The White Sheik (1952)..




The episode of the singer in the shower takes on greater significance when you realise it's one of Woody's favourite places to be creative. When he's on location he insists on having a good shower...

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