A good movie

For about 20 years already, I have been following closely Woody Allen’s career (I think I have seen about 30 of his movies by now) but even though I used to be a hardcore fan, I have nowadays some rather mixed feelings about his work. The point is that even though he is considered a Art-house king, he is in fact actually a real factory. Indeed, every single year, he comes up with a new movie, like a metronome, and with such productivity, as a result, most of those movies have become disposable (and I’m being nice). However, at least once a decade, he makes one film which gets some amazing reviews and this movie was a great success financially (it was Woody Allen's first film to gross over $100 million worldwide) and critically (among other things, it earned 4 Academy award nomination and Allen got his 4th oscar out of it). With this in mind, I was rather hopeful and, indeed, it was pretty good and quite enjoyable but, honestly, it was far from being a masterpiece. The point is that, maybe for the US audience who have never been to Paris, it was amazing to see this city from such a romantic point of view, but for a French guy like me, it was like watching a very long commercial. Same thing about seeing all those great artists. It was a fun gimmick but since none of them was properly developed, it was nothing really interesting. As a matter of fact, I prefer the present day story about the misguided relationship between Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams (both really good here). Furthermore, the conclusion was seriously generic. Still, somehow, it was a nice watch, I had a fairly good time watching this and I guess it is worth a look but don’t expect anything really amazing.

7/10