12/27/2023 0 Comments A rainy day in new york![]() ![]() It at first seemed a generous choice of Allen, a real act of self-sacrifice, to admit that women find gorgeous men appealing. (Not to mention the male gays.) So pretty. The first is in the Diego Luna character, who is most definitely not an Allen clone, and whose mere presence acknowledges the female gaze. ![]() The absence of the world of actual New York under-80s is rationalized in the movie by the Chalamet character being a nostalgic sort. The plot? College students flirt and cavort their way through a Manhattan more appropriate to a massively successful elderly man. A street-smart brunette, who nevertheless lives in a palatial Manhattan apartment decorated like Versailles because where else could a person in a late-Allen movie live? Selena Gomez plays the Fanning character’s competition for Chalamet’s character’s affections, and she’s intriguingly (terribly) cast in the role of earthy New Yawk nebbishette. Why she does not close the coat around herself while doing so, as anyone instinctively would in those weather conditions? As the “Magnetic Fields” song goes, “a pretty girl, in her underwear/if there’s anything better in this world, who cares.” This is, presumably, the idea. There’s a scene where Elle Fanning, a modern-day Annie Hall, an aw-shucks naïf from the boonies, flees a tryst in the rain (get it? The title?) in only her underwear and a trench coat. There are women as well, and you will never guess what qualities they share, but in case you were stumped: youth, hotness, and attraction to a Woody Allen type. Wait I forgot a fourth: an NYU student filmmaker, a blink-and-you-miss-it character who’s halfway between Allen and George Costanza. How can Jude Law be turned into Woody Allen? The magic of cinema. The bot worked overtime and came up with three different pseudo-Allens, played by Timothée Chalamet (of Canadian and Jewish background, I had no idea), Liev Schreiber, and (why stop flattering yourself?) Jude Law. ![]() The sort where it seems like someone (Woody Allen, presumably, because who else) asked an AI chatbot to make a Woody Allen movie, but with modern-day young and youngish actors. Without the backstory-and we will get to that backstory- A Rainy Day in New York might have been yet another late-era Woody Allen movie, indistinguishable from the rest. ![]()
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