Being an atypical director, Woody Allen ends up captivating due to that particularity that explains each intrastory from different focuses than the usual ones. Perhaps that is why Allen is not the typical genius turned favorite son of the most commercial Hollywood (even less so after certain ominous accusations that I am not going to elaborate on). And yet, his legion of faithful spectators spread to many other places in the world.
Without being a prophet in his homeland, Woody Allen also represents the paradigm of the current New Yorker, the chronicle counterpoint of the big city to the always acidic one, Fran Lebowitz. And it is that even in a literary vision, Woody Allen He makes us participate in that realism loaded with shameless subjectivism, in the healthy ambition to transmit his way of seeing the characters traced to current reality.
In a certain way there is something of a dichotomous opening of the soul in what Allen rolls for the world, something of an exposition of contradictions in the engines that move characters as representations of people. Then there is that touch of chance that can lead to greater fortune (rarely or for a short time) or doom (almost always and for longer). The synthesis is survival, stoicism, opportunity. A summary of the life that Woody Allen uses as the closing of many of his films.
Top 3 Recommended Woody Allen Movies
Match Point
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Choosing a film so late in Allen's career shows that one has not always been very of his current. A convert like me had that approach like the one that occurs in the rediscovery of the benefits and possibilities of vegetables. And tastes adjust to need, state, evolution. Hence precisely this movie, with its final reading about chance, won me over to its cause.
Perhaps it is not his best film according to the critics. But when you start something, it is only fair to point out that turning point that changed everything. However I insist on the benefits of the film per se. Because the plot seems to me much more dynamic than in other of his feature films and its development manages to hook unbelievers like me at the time. That opening that came out a bit of the introspective completed the film and opened possibilities for his cinema.
A dramatic proposal that abounds in the notion of chance as life crashed against the net waiting to elucidate where the ball will fall. Days, months or years may pass, but the ball always falls determining the match point. That feeling that there is never going back. It doesn't matter the blow or the way you deal with it. The thing is that the ball can always hit the net and only a breath of air can decide what is going to happen.
Annie Hall
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Particular queries aside, we arrive at the emblematic movie, at that summit that is sometimes equaled but rarely surpassed. With his own protagonism, Woody Allen manages to convey that feeling between stoic and nihilistic that remains when one assumes the strange lucidity that illuminates everything.
Human relationships in their most domestic part, the ravages of time and the vain efforts to maintain sanity, passion or whatever it was that aroused that sensation of extreme life of love in its first scenes. Because love can repeat itself over and over again in life's only trial. The point, the aforementioned lucidity, is that, as Allen makes us understand, it is precisely those movements in the opposite direction, which make the time lived irreconcilable with the intensity of the emotions. If we intend to keep those kinds of drives also alive.
Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Woody Allen's idyll with Spain is evident from the spectators' side but also from a Woody Allen who seems to empathize with our idiosyncrasies in a thousand loves. A film that passes from Barcelona to Oviedo as an adventure between strangers to unfold as a kind of crossroads. And yes, there are romantic touches in the sense that Woody Allen understands it, without artifice or capricious muses that remain after mere appearances.
Love with its edges and hardness, with its paradoxes and its dramatic humor point. Decisions and the inability to decide when one is immersed in unsuspected discoveries and inertias never imagined.
The noise and bewilderment when polyamory enters through the window. The noise, the passion and the fury. Even the violence and a feeling of reaching the emotional peak from which all that remains is to fall off or assume the top, put up the flag and return to the base camp of the routine with the memory of having lived in extremes, with hardly any oxygen.
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