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Rikin's Festival, Woody Allen's New York testament

2022-07-12T11:01:49.388Z


REVIEW – The director pays a fun tribute to European cinema in his latest film, a vaudeville that recycles his old fads.


Woody Allen has the blues.

In an interview with Alec Baldwin, broadcast on the Blue Jasmine

actor's Instagram account on

Tuesday, June 28, the New York filmmaker expressed his weariness.

More desire.

More juice.

The times are changing.

Cinema is no longer what it used to be.

The rooms are empty.

The platforms are filling up.

Movies are eaten like popcorn.

Allen is considering a final shoot in Paris, already surveyed in

Everybody says I love you

and

Midnight in Paris

.

Mort Rifkin, the hero of

Rifkin's Festival

seems to announce it:

"Boulevard Saint-Michel in the rain, here is a landscape that I would like."

It would be the 50th feature film by the director, now 86 years old.

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He shot

Rifkin's Festival

in Spain, in San Sebastian.

History justifies it since it…

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Source: lefigaro

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