Sophie Lellouche’s love letter to Woody Allen and directorial debut Paris-Manhattan, begins with a homage to the great filmmakers familiar opening titles, with a simplistic white writing against a plain, black background. However they aren’t presented in the same, infamous Windsor font, and it’s this slight indifference which sets the precedence for how the rest of this picture will play out, as although certainly a charming and genial tribute to Allen, it just isn’t quite as accomplished or ingenious as his work.
Alice Taglioni plays Alice, a Woody Allen obsessive who runs the family owned pharmacy, where she believes that classic movies such as Manhattan and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) are the perfect remedy to her customers conditions. However such films can’t cure herself of loneliness, as she struggles to find a partner – despite her father...
Alice Taglioni plays Alice, a Woody Allen obsessive who runs the family owned pharmacy, where she believes that classic movies such as Manhattan and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) are the perfect remedy to her customers conditions. However such films can’t cure herself of loneliness, as she struggles to find a partner – despite her father...
- 7/4/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A documentary celebrating the eccentric master of fish flies, Megan Boyd; how Mamma Mia! star Dominic Cooper got a taste for real ale; and Woody Allen steps out from behind the camera
Fishing for film gold
The Edinburgh international film festival starts this week, casting its net wide with Korean films and American indies. But this 67th edition might be remembered for a very local tale and one of the unlikeliest documentaries that's ever hooked me. It's called Kiss the Water: A Love Story, a portrait of an eccentric, almost hermit-like woman called Megan Boyd who became the world's foremost maker of salmon flies. Seriously. Prince Charles was one of her loyal clients, even delivering her OBE to her cottage because Boyd couldn't be bothered with the fuss of going to the palace to accept it from the Queen.
The film is by American doc maker Eric Steel, whose last film,...
Fishing for film gold
The Edinburgh international film festival starts this week, casting its net wide with Korean films and American indies. But this 67th edition might be remembered for a very local tale and one of the unlikeliest documentaries that's ever hooked me. It's called Kiss the Water: A Love Story, a portrait of an eccentric, almost hermit-like woman called Megan Boyd who became the world's foremost maker of salmon flies. Seriously. Prince Charles was one of her loyal clients, even delivering her OBE to her cottage because Boyd couldn't be bothered with the fuss of going to the palace to accept it from the Queen.
The film is by American doc maker Eric Steel, whose last film,...
- 6/15/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
"Paris-Manhattan" is an amusing little nothing of a movie built around the wit and wisdom of Woody Allen. First-time writer-director Sophie Lellouche has taken bon mots from Allen's movies and used them to create nothing less than a philosophy of life for her heroine,"Why is life worth living? ... I would say ... Groucho Marx, to name one thing ... the 2nd movement of the Jupiter Symphony ... Swedish movies, naturally."
Alice (Alice Togliani), whose name was the title of a 1990 Woody film and who is a dead ringer for Julie Hagerty of "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," has been obsessed with the "handsome" director, "the one who makes me laugh," since college. She's never married, works as a pharmacist with her worrywart father in Paris, and hands out DVDs of Woody's films in lieu of medicine, on occasion.
"Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" is a particular favorite.
Alice (Alice Togliani), whose name was the title of a 1990 Woody film and who is a dead ringer for Julie Hagerty of "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," has been obsessed with the "handsome" director, "the one who makes me laugh," since college. She's never married, works as a pharmacist with her worrywart father in Paris, and hands out DVDs of Woody's films in lieu of medicine, on occasion.
"Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" is a particular favorite.
- 4/18/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Paris-Manhattan
Written and directed by Sophie Lellouche
France, 2012
Concerning a Woody Allen obsessive, Paris-Manhattan borrows a central conceit from one of the man’s most beloved writing and acting efforts, albeit not one he directed himself. Instead of the apparition of Humphrey Bogart appearing to deliver advice like in Play It Again, Sam, Allen himself, in the form of a life-size poster and extracts from his films, is the maxim-dispenser of Sophie Lellouche’s debut feature.
In the film’s opening, protagonist Alice (Alice Taglioni) explains in voice-over that she and Woody Allen formed a connection when she first saw one of his films (Hannah and Her Sisters) at age fifteen, and that, in reference to Allen’s prolific work-rate, the two have maintained an annual “relationship” ever since. In the narrative’s present, Alice is single and working at her father’s pharmacy. Having found all answers to her...
Written and directed by Sophie Lellouche
France, 2012
Concerning a Woody Allen obsessive, Paris-Manhattan borrows a central conceit from one of the man’s most beloved writing and acting efforts, albeit not one he directed himself. Instead of the apparition of Humphrey Bogart appearing to deliver advice like in Play It Again, Sam, Allen himself, in the form of a life-size poster and extracts from his films, is the maxim-dispenser of Sophie Lellouche’s debut feature.
In the film’s opening, protagonist Alice (Alice Taglioni) explains in voice-over that she and Woody Allen formed a connection when she first saw one of his films (Hannah and Her Sisters) at age fifteen, and that, in reference to Allen’s prolific work-rate, the two have maintained an annual “relationship” ever since. In the narrative’s present, Alice is single and working at her father’s pharmacy. Having found all answers to her...
- 11/24/2012
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Photos of Jeremy Renner sliding down a wall in The Bourne Legacy, several shots from Snow White and the Huntsman, three shots of Josh Brolin and Will Smith in the 1960's scenes of Men in Black 3, a trio of heroes walk a hall in The Avengers, the first shot of Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Won't Back Down, and Judi Dench on the set of Skyfall.
Posters for Piranha 3Dd, A Thousand Words, The Cold Light of Day, Mirror Mirror, The Hunger Games, Now is Good.
"New Blu-ray release dates are up - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" on March 27th, "We Bought a Zoo" on April 3rd, "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol" on April 17th, "Contraband" and "The Artist" on April 24th, "New Year's Eve" on May 1st, "Underworld Awakening" on May 8th, "Rampart" on May 15th, "Perfect Sense" on May 22nd, "The Woman in the Fifth" on June 11th,...
Posters for Piranha 3Dd, A Thousand Words, The Cold Light of Day, Mirror Mirror, The Hunger Games, Now is Good.
"New Blu-ray release dates are up - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" on March 27th, "We Bought a Zoo" on April 3rd, "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol" on April 17th, "Contraband" and "The Artist" on April 24th, "New Year's Eve" on May 1st, "Underworld Awakening" on May 8th, "Rampart" on May 15th, "Perfect Sense" on May 22nd, "The Woman in the Fifth" on June 11th,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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