For these reasons they may be called fate, chance or business, for that matter, did the last Woody Allen film premieres in Buenos Aires three months after the penultimate and just one more day later than the last had its world premiere at the opening of Cannes. This investment makes Q ue the thing to work , 2009 movie, succeeds Meet the man of your dreams (2010), who passed through here in early February with the relative success always Allen's films. Enough that their jobs keep coming, even the less fortunate, as is the case. A curious fact works as a trigger. While Woody Allen has filmed six years in different cities of the Old Continent, that the thing to work does not belong to the European series of Match Point is the newcomer Midnight in Paris. For a while the old Woody was allowed to return their cameras to their NYC wanted to shoot this comedy that took a bit of voluntary exile. Impossible to avoid the commonplace to refer to the bulk of his earlier work, as Borges, Allen insists on rewriting the same stories over and over again, each time testing innovative twists. Target this time just get reach, although the first 15 minutes promise a lot. The role is usually the director himself when allowed to inhabit both edges of the screen, this time played by Larry David, a successful writer of Seinfeld , remarkable resemblance to Carlitos Bianchi. Boris is a quantum physicist in his sixties, absolute genius, once mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel, who nevertheless can not fail to see the world in the worst way. It's terrific, sarcastic, hypochondriacal, phobic and many other things that the characters of Woody trailing since the first film as director in 1966 (and before that). But Boris has a more or less unexpected extra: it is extremely aggressive, verbally and even physically violent. For him, the others-including his friends are idiots, losers, ignorant and even mentally retarded not to understand that they are part of a senseless and sadistic farce called life. Already in the first scene, Boris takes hold of another classic action Allen breaks the convention of the fourth wall to tell the audience he and bluntly, some details of his thinking. And so they will know that a divorce just over compatibility with his ex, who teaches chess to some guys that are fun and even assaults, throwing the board for the head, inefficient, who has attempted suicide by jumping out a window, so loaded with a limp.
Eventually Boris will give asylum to a new girl in town, who ran away from home in a southern state and not even to eat. She, even with his simple mind, everything human is not Boris. At the opposite end game dazzled by him, and he got used to it, reason enough to end up married. The girl's mother, bourgeois women, religious and Gross have been looking for her lost daughter, is soon to appear. Of course loathe to his son and try by all means make separate. As
at least another 32-odd films of Woody Allen, deep down no one is happy with your place in the world. The difference here is that stereotypes are so abundant, basic, and the changes that operate on them so obvious and trite, if Boris himself paid a ticket to see this movie, do not hesitate to ask the head of the director. Boris is undoubtedly the great success of That thing works, a truly remarkable character not by what Allen drags genetics (in excess), but for the rare violence that accompanies such classic grimaces. Still, the movie (With moments of humor acceptable) not traveling until he leaves, yielding to the temptation of Hollywood ending , cliché which the director has managed to mock. Unlike will meet the man of your dreams , here's a happy ending. That is certainly not conventional, but no less happy. And this in a movie with a character like Boris, no longer an unforgivable weakness.
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