not Allen's best

Rating: 7/10 (5 October 2012)

I must say this is not my favorite Woody Allen movie.
Every work is different of course but is very weak, especially compared to match point which I think is a masterpiece. Also Vicky, Cristina! Barcelona was an epic movie showing how Allen has always been ahead of his time. Funny enough he, himself plays in from Rome with Love, exactly as an artist (in opera production business).
You can still see that your watching a Woody Allen movie. It's his quirkiness, unexpected twists, parallel stories... It's all the elements characteristic to his style- what it lacks is the dire shock! Think ending of the match point, the intense encounters of Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona. There is nothing as remarkable as these scenes in his latest movie. Maybe it didn't have to have. It's a love story at the end of the day- at least three to be more precise. Well you can't be precise though. Everyone who watches this movie will have a separate interpretations of the stories.
There are the obvious relationships and their not so honest extrapolations but there are also sub stories of loving and fake admirations towards celebrities, there is also the stories of the love between son and father, love towards art and architecture, love towards work- love of life at the end of the day.
Hmm when I look at at like this, maybe this wasn't a bad movie after all. Ok it gets a 7 from me.
Enjoy the movie, Gorkem