A not so good Allen's movie

Rating: 6/10 (11 April 2013)

It is not one of the most outstanding films of Allen, but, as in all his filmography, offers to the viewer who admires him, a good time for recreation, with his characteristic black humor, telling four different stories not necessarily interwoven. Shows, this time as a continuation of the sequence of the last films, a beautiful European city, Rome, with its traditional monuments, the bohemian quarters, a middle-class family suddenly overwhelmed by fame, the lightness and superficiality of celebrities' journalists, a "prepaid" woman that generates a hard time to a newly married young provincial professional, the amateur opera singer, gravedigger in his working days, that can only have a good singing performance when bathing in the morning and encouraged by the father of his son's girl friend, mounted a ridiculous show with these characteristics, and a mature architect that acts as the voice of conscience of a young professional wanting to explore romantic alternatives with his wife's quasi-intellectual friend also willing to convert the classical architecture of the city into a modern and inconsistent one with the tradition style.
Allen is not a commercial success seeker but a director that searches for ingenious ways to convey his ideas, intelligent criticism and humor.
Allen always remain Allen .......