Least Personal Allen Plays Smart

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2007)

Woody Allen has defined a genre that might well suit the writer's catharsis, a little bit more outrageous with Charlie Kauffman, in which characters digress into their feelings and avoid all kind of physical action. Woody used to depict in scene his alter ego to structure and open all what he has in mind in more than an intellectual recipe. Cinematographically in his sunset (or not so) he shines a smart, well crafted story about an ex-tennis player that is involved in the London elite as well in trouble and dead ends.
His film may pass reliably as a true story, filmed in the moment as things are factual and the filming is just a witnessing in the story. He plays fairly well with that perspective: he makes it credible thanks to great, felt performances and a script that makes it's way through rigorous drafting to look natural and improvised. Allen here has the time to impose succulent in betweens and innuendos, fantastic metaphors and intelligent, thoughtful ramifications of the human condition. His cinematography is slow moving, yet smooth, just like drinking wine. Elitesque and superb. There is fire between the young couple of mains, where Woody tries to stay fresh no matter the years.
"Match Point" is Woody's most commercial film, and he defined him as his best. He may be proud all over his meditated script and his first rate direction, but maybe audience (us) will prefer his innovated, spicy and emotional older pictures.