Saturday, May 16, 2015

Cannes: No response to the hard questions – Courier

W oody Allen had refused to show his new film “Irrational Man” in competition in Cannes – even though it festival director Thierry Fremaux had specially invited. “Out of Competition” he preferred for his black-humored comedy thriller. And the running, at least better than feared -. Always assuming you’re willing to believe that Joaquin Phoenix is ​​a philosophy professor who wrote a book on Heidegger and Nazism

FRANCE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2015
Woody Allen thinks about perfect murders after – and stupid questions – Photo: APA / EPA / IAN LANGSDON

But after Allen’s last film “Magic in in the Moonlight” had shown a sad low point in the career of New York City Euro Sufferer, takes “Irrational Man” at least something to ride on.

content linked the film to Allen’s celebrated thriller melodrama “Match Point” on, but failed to match its intense quality. As a music box whose melody you’ve heard many times before, the events coil smoothly. In the first half you have a lot of pseudo-smart philosophy-blah to go through, only in the second part it is faster.



The competition films Cannes

Perfect Murder

The old Hitchcock question of how the perfect murder could look, employs a philosophy professor with an alcohol problem. Joaquin Phoenix pushes his beer belly velvet sweat stain convincing depressed on the university grounds and can neither be of a pretty student (Emma Stone) nor of a sex-mad colleague (Parker Posey) tear out the evil spirits. Only the philosophical reflection to execute a perfect murder, pumping him again energy in the lumbar.

“Have you yourself ever thought, to kill a man?”, Wants a witty journalist at the press conference in Cannes . know

“Just now, as you have asked me that question,” Allen snaps back in his blue plaid shirt

But let’s be honest:. “There is no positive answer to the really hard questions of life. Because life is meaningless, and at the end it’s all over. The only way to endure, is the distraction. Filmmaking is for me a wonderful distraction. And then I do not think about death after and the fact that I eventually – in a distant future – will be old “

The find all present funny, but prevents a journalist does not depend on all kind to remember that it this year his 80s. would celebrate. The age – a cause for more serious films? Not at all. “My idol was Ingmar Bergman and straight as a young person I always wanted to make films heavy,” says Woody Allen. “But for me no one gave money My talent was the humor -.. And that’s why I had to turn comedies”

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