Rating of
4/4
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memento_mori - wrote on 09/23/13
I'm going to start off simple this time:
This is Woody Allen's best film to date.
It looks and sounds incredible. I can't use the word 'beautiful' enough to describe the way this film looks, sounds and feels at its core aesthetically.
It looks like something straight out of Allen's mind. Pulled out of a random day-dream and worked on to develop into a screenplay. The writing is superb, especially the dialogue and way of line delivery. It's a bit of a throwback to Annie Hall, but it's done much smoother and not with such forced intimacy as seen in Annie Hall.
Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams are perfectly cast. Wilson even looks a bit like a young Woody Allen if you look at him from far away. Either way, he played the part convincingly. The look on his face when he realized he went back in time was priceless.
The impressions of great old writers and artists were also quite inventive, often referencing their future works and accomplishments, so that's how the ironic humor shines.
It felt like there were some convoluted inconsistencies near the end, but that's only because the film has such an enormous amount of creativity. It is completely unpredictable and never dull to watch, always engaging the viewer within the timelines and subplots.
To me, this is the true great Woody Allen film. It has everything. The humor and wit, the acting, the great writing, the poetic symbolism, the one-liners, the fascinating direction and everything else.
And he's right, too. Paris is most beautiful in the rain.
