Woddy Allen travels back to 70s

Rating: 9/10 (23 October 2011)

It begins with still shots of beloved city with which no art, no matter how great, can be compared. In this surreal fantasy it seems Woody Allen has traveled back to his golden age, the 70s. When he gave the world the likes of Annie hall and Manhattan. It keeps hooked with typical quirky characters and unusual observations and conversations. We meet people from the golden age. witness an affair in the Paris of 20s. Settings of the movie can not be critiqued. The cinematography only enhances, if it's possible, the beauty of sets. Wilson does the character as woody Allen would do it. He keep putting his hands in the pocket, walks funny, delivers quirky dialogs. This movie itself is Woody Allen, conversations about fear of death, empty existence, hopeless love and Paris - all have for so long characterized him and his early movies. So glad to see he finally made a movie in our time as great as the ones he used to make. A thing that he leaves with us in this film - "We all fear death and question our place in universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."