OK...I haven¹t seen Match Point but I just read the critique
from Guardian, UK¹s Peter Bradshaw and he finishes like this:
³Match Point has some interesting moments and a clever twist
at the end on the theme of chance and fate. However, as
Allen's next movie is reportedly also going to be set in the
UK, he really is going to have to learn to speak British at
something better than tourist level²....Hmmm...not very
engaging ...even less engaging is a thorough review (imdb is
a good start) of his DP¹s previous shoots and experience, and
most of it is straight UK TV...nothing very moody and noir or
shadowy there in Remi Adefarasin¹s background...and, if you
talk Œnoir¹ in film, the choice of your DP is absolutely
key....
...but I¹ll ask a much simpler question: why would anybody
think of Woody Allen (a good satirist & filmaker, and an
original one...30 years ago) as a noir/harboiled
director...whatever that is anyway...It difficult of
course
(and not healthy) to put people in boxes and lock¹em
there...but in this case, it¹s pretty much clear cut...He has
done film that had mood, that were dark, but from there to
harboiled...hmmm...
I haven¹t seen the film I repeat, but if anything this review
from Michael Atkinson in the Village Voice doesn¹t tempt me
further:
³ Serve and Folly - Woody Allen's Cannes-hyped,
Brit-inflected latest is a mildly pretentious mediocrity -
What we think about when we think about Woody Allen: the
Woody of the 1970s, parodic nebbish-genius turned
self-satiric nebbish-romantic, whose films bore rich, thick
meat and yet could produce belly laughs in the educated
middle-aged. The Woody of the next decade, workaholic
shotgun-spray auteur, who made some kind of progression
toward maturity and inventiveness every other film. And the
Woody of late, recycling menopauser and master of mannerism,
his scenarios tame remakes, his characters instantly
recognizable as meta-Woodys aping the man's trademarked
delivery. Given the career entropy, his survival has been
remarkable, as is the forgiving shower of accolades
shepherding his new film, Match Point, home from Cannes. A
modest and mildly pretentious mediocrity in the Woodman
canon, the movie sports a British veneer, and this relative
oddness has been cause for "return to form!" sighs of relief.
But Allen is, alas, pushing forward and downward into
de-fertilized soil badly in need of crop rotation.....²
Montois
On 2/23/08 7:12 PM, "
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net" <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
>
> "MATCHPOINT is perhaps the best modern noir film
made in the United
> States."
>
> Uh, dude, it was made in the UK.
>
> Mark
>
>
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