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Whatever Works (2009)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
To Rome With Love (2012)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
This set exceeded my best expectations.
It is a key virtue of Woody Allen’s work, as I should now know, but I especially exulted in the variety among these almost immediate successive five screenplays. Of the five, “the one which I liked least” (which is unnecessarily negative) was You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. It is the “weak” one of this handful, in the way that a B+ paper is “weak” compared to a quartet of A’s. The engine for both You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Blue Jasmine is, the unpredictability of relationships, how we make such an effort to find the right person, but how some portion of that endeavor is just plain out of our control. (We might say that the same theme runs through Whatever Works, but in the context of a giddy comedy.) In different environments, the poignancy of both You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Blue Jasmine comes from the relationships, and the people, which/who at the end are to some degree broken, and the open question of whether they can (and how they should) mend. Perhaps they are both variations on the same theme of Annie Hall; but there is no “retread” – there is inexhaustible discovery.
Whatever Works is brilliant and witty. Could not stop chuckling.
In an environment (cinema) where two successive movies on a similar theme too frequently suggest the ham-handed use of a cookie-cutter, Allen achieves a tour-de-force in making the two “travelogue” movies, Midnight in Paris and To Rome With Love – absolutely different, in spite of the superficial similarity of at least one element: American parents coming to a European capital for the engagement/wedding of their daughter. Exquisitely delightful, both of them.
Marvelous screenplays, marvelous casts.
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