Woody Allen, my fear? The future of home cinema

(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - ROME, MAY 04 - The love for European cinema, the importance of the cinema, the dislike for TV series ("but miamoglie looks at them"), fear for the future of cinema that perhaps will live only in the living room and, finally, also a new film to be shot in Paris that recalls Match Point. So at eight in the morning a Woody Allen, in a light blue shirt and even more fragile for his 85 years, talks about himself via Zoom to present his 'Rifkin's Festival', in the hall from May 6 with VisionDistribution.

    From the director, in the press meeting, never any reference to the delicate story of Dylan, his adopted daughter, who claims to have suffered abuse by him as a child, except for the denial of the reasons for the blocking of the distribution of the film in the United States, for many caused precisely by this story . "I think this film is just a victim of the pandemic. When it came out, many distributors were going bankrupt because people were watching TV at home. There was, in short, a big change in distribution, but we have already received offers and in the United States I am convinced that in the end yes. will see ". In Allen's future then a new film: "I already have a screenplay ready to be made in Paris, but the pandemic has ruined everything. As soon as it starts again I hope to be able to go back there and shoot it.It is a film that I can only say that it looks a bit at Match Point. "And what about post-pandemic human relationships?" I think they will remain the same forever. Everything will be exactly as it was. There will be people who no longer want to go into the office and work from home, but basically people will be the same as before. They will have the same desires, the same ambitions, the same weaknesses ".

   As for the difference between American and European cinema, the real hit of Rifkin's Festival - which stars a former professor of film history married to Sue, an elusive press officer - explains Allen from his Manhattan home: "I think the main thrust of a film both its innovation, the type of artistic achievement. The cinema in the States has remained immature, driven as it is mainly by profit. European films are ahead of American ones, both in cinematographic technique and in subject ".

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