Only 543 votes ???

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2005)

There are more votes for Michael Haneke's "Caché", which came out only one or two weeks ago !!!!
How can Woody Allen be a virtual stranger in his own country to such an extent ??? How can someone setting ALL his film plots in *New York* for thirty years get so little interest in his own country - and be a *Superstar* in Europe?
Unless the film just came out *days* ago in the United States (in which case my above comments would look very silly, I admit it...) - well, this is a complete mystery to me!
I haven't seen the movie yet, you might have guessed, but I strongly suspect I will like it (especially as so many people are referring to "Crimes and Misdemeanors" to describe it, which was one of his last great movies, if not the very last). I have a very soft spot for Mrs. Johanssen as well...
(Edit: I have learned in the meantime, reading one of the threads about the movie (below), that Allen's films are hardly being shown in the U.S. *at all*. That explains the few votes, but is quite sad an stupid as well, knowing one of the main factors for it is his affair with his adoptive daughter. Now, I don't approve of this, neither did I appreciate it very much when I first heard about it. But if this kind of story being intolerable to the American people was followed through - and I'm confident that in the U.S., there too many open minded people to let that happen on grand scale - then there would be an awful lot of famous artists needing to be censored...)