Good movie weak story

Rating: 6/10 (23 March 2006)

If you still remember Woody Allen's movies just forget it while watching this movie because it has nothing to do with his style or his favourite themata. We are thousands of miles away from a movie built along a series of witty, rich and vivid intellectual dialogues and monologues. We watch here only a serious psychological drama. It's doubtless a movie made with great mastery upon a weak and trite story. As a matter of fact we have already seen lots of movies and read lots of novels about the parvenu who climbs the social ladder by beginning to marry a tycoon's daughter and getting a good job in one of father-in-law's companies till his love affair with a woman out of his new acquired social ring comes to compromise everything, leading from a certain moment on to dangerous crossroads where dramatic choices must be quickly made. We remember for instance the excellent "Room at the Top" (1959) by Jack Clayton with Lawrence Harvey and Simone Signoret. In conclusion I think that although this is not a bad movie the story is too trivial for the genius of someone like Woody Allen to be wasted upon it.