3.12.2019 14:19
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The New York conjured up by the old master director Woody Allen (“Der Stadtneurotiker”) in his new film may only have nuances to do with the current New York. But the film is more than an homage to the Big Apple: It’s about a young college couple who are threatening to move further and further apart in this big city. Gatsby (Timothee Chalamet) was so excited to finally show his girlfriend (Elle Fanning) his hometown.
It was not an easy path for Woody Allen’s new film to the cinema: After old allegations against the director were debated again in the course of the MeToo debate, Amazon, which actually wanted to bring “A Rainy Day in New York” to the screen, decided against a publication. One legal dispute later, the new comedy will come to the cinema on Thursday.
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A Rainy Day in New York – Short content about the film
2018 became the first year since 1982 in which no film by the notoriously hard worker Allen celebrated its theatrical release. For this, fans of the cult filmmaker are now being compensated with a work so typical of Allen that the 83-year-old has not shot for a long time. The setting is of course New York. After two stripes from the middle of the 20th century (“Cafe Society” and “Wonder Wheel”), the Big Apple of today serves as the background again.
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The out-of-town student Gatsby Welles (Timothy Chalamet) wants to spend a romantic weekend in New York with his Arizona-born flame Ashleigh (Elle Fanning) – apart from the short interview the student conducts there with film director Roland Pollard (Liev Schreiber) Has. When the filmmaker invites his handsome counterpart to a test screening of his new film, a series of encounters begins that will ultimately have changed everyone involved. Because while Ashleigh slides from one Hollywood celebrity to the next, wannabe dandy Gatsby shuffles through rain-soaked New York and has a fateful encounter.
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A Rainy Day in New York – Die Kritik
The difference to Allen’s great earlier declarations of love for New York, such as “Der Stadtneurotiker” or “Manhattan”, is that “A Rainy Day in New York” is not a narrative on the pulse of the times, not a portrait of today’s society, but an equally nostalgic one like romantic eulogies to the Big Apple. Regardless of the young actors, the event seems to have fallen out of time and yet strangely familiar.
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It is ultimately the mild retrospective of an 83-year-old who portrays the beautiful and rich of New York’s upper class. You go to the Met, live on the Upper Westside, have long conversations about relationships and sex that are shown in just a few cuts. Allen’s cameraman Vittorio Storaro (“Apocalypse Now”) bathes these images in brightly colored, picturesque light. All of this is as familiar as the same font of the credits, which are always presented on a black background and always with jazz in the background.
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So this series is not too modern. And yet he lives from the play of his up-and-coming stars Chalamet and Fanning, who herself brings substance out of her clichéd Arizona naive. In addition, there is the reassuring certainty that not everything changes in society, but that some things simply live on as quotations from themselves.
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