la dolce vita-again

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2009)

One wonders if Woody Allen's films will be regarded simply as mere mannerisms 50 years from today. Once again, the elite world of New Yorkers possessed of unlimited earning power and ever so much leisure time is the center of attention, a world on both sides of the Atlantic where no poverty, filth, despair, oppression and ultimate unfairness are even visible. This middle class maven has succeeded in fooling many of us into regarding articulate kitsch as art. To many of us. Spielberg can't make a love story and Woody Allen cannot or will not portray life, real life. One assumes that the glimpse of real life we saw in Radio Days is too painful to be an adult experience.
Yeah, we get it - real connections don't happen enough and we are left to settle or forever search.
The guitar music would have been great by half.