![]() He removes the restraint of plot, and just goes balls out nuts with his usual philosophical angst, and endless worship of beautiful dames. For many reasons, I rank this among his best. Here, using the tactics of Felini, he makes fools of his detractors including the greatest detractor of all, Woody himself. The problem with Woody has always been that everyone takes his movies more seriously than he does. One more thing - Charlotte Rampling is breathtaking. "The people survived because they laughed". The film was made twenty four years ago and I am very happy that Sandy - Woody had realized that to help the world IS to do what you do the best - funny movies. It is funny, touching, angry - all in the same time. The film is delight in gorgeous black and white. Woody meets Federico in the Stardust Hotel. Sounds familiar? Like 8 1/2, anyone? You are absolutely right. ![]() While there, he reflects upon his life, art, and relationships with three different women. Sandy is depressed because his new "serious" film is not well received by both critics and public and he is spending a weekend at Stardust Hotel during showing of his films. Sandy Bates (Allen, of course) - a comic director who does not want to make funny films anymore "because there is so much suffering in the world" (the scene reminds so much of Sturgis's "Sullivan's Travels"). I found it insightful and witty satire that cleverly (as always if anything, Woody is a very clever man) fuses the comic and the serious. I was very surprised to find out that Stardust Memories is dismissed by both critics (at least some of them) and viewers as absolutely unwatchable Allen's film, his most chaotic attempt to claim that he can not stand his fans.
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