Sorttasera on Rai 3 At 9.30 pm aired Rifkins’ FestivalWoody Allen’s penultimate film. Another dip in Europe loved by the New York director. After shooting in Paris, Rome and Barcelona, the filmmaker leads to San Sebastianduring the Film Festival which usually takes place in the Spanish town immediately after the Venice exhibition.
THEThe protagonist a former film professor who accompanies his wife to the San Sebastian Festival. Here he witnesses everything that revolves around a film event: Between overrated directors, party, glam, interviews and infidelity.
Rifkin’s Festival On Rai 3, the plot of the film broadcast today 26 August
Mort rifkin (Wallace Shawn), an ex -cinema passionate professor And his wife Sue (Gina Gershon), press agent of the promising filmmast Philippe (Louis Garrel), land in San Sebastian during the film festival. While his is totally absorbed by work and attraction towards Phil, Mort finds himself increasingly alienated, tormented by jealousy and doubts about the solidity of his marriage.
During the stay, the man gets involved in the magic of the Festival And of the elegant Spanish town, but above all develops a link with Jo Rojas (Elena Anaja), a doctor of the place with a complicated past. The dialogues between the two become an opportunity for introspection for Mortbetween irony and nostalgia, on a personal journey made of regrets and lost dreams.
The protagonist’s thoughts are populated with black and white patterns, Inspired by the great masters of European cinema (from Bergman to Truffaut), who reflect his inner obsessions, his failures and his passions. Rifkin’s Festival Thus becomes a melancholy and surreal reflection on old age, on love and on the importance of cinema as a magnifying glass on life.
Review of the penultimate film by Woody Allen
Allen in the film conveys his tic (mort is a kind of alter ego): Psychoanalysis, the reflections on the passage of time, on infidelity (his wife loses his head for Philippe, while he for the Spanish cardiologist Joana) and the passion towards the cinema of the great masters. The director of Manhattan Celebrate the films and directors with whom he grew up through Mort’s dreams.
Suddenly the viewer is in 8 ½ by Fellini, in Jules and Jim by Truffaut, in Until the last breath by Jean Luc Godardin Fourth power of Orson Welles and in Seventh seal by Bergman, where a recognizable Christoph Waltz plays the role of death. A fun game of quotes to celebrate the cinema of the past.
Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon and Wallace Shawn.
The cast of Rifkin’s Festival With Gina Gershon and Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn, an old Knowledge of Allen (from Manhattan to Radio Days)interprets is Mort Rifkin, a professor of American cinema, ironic and neurotic, in personal and existential crisis. Gina Gershon is his wife, a press agent attracted by the young Philippe (Louis Garrel), a arrogant and fascinating French director.
Elena Anaya plays the role of the Spanish Dr. Jo Rojas Which holds a deep understanding with Wallace, while Sergi López is Paco, his jealous husband. Christoph Waltz makes cameo as death, in a dreamlike scene inspired by The seventh seal by Bergman. Our Vittorio Storaro signs the photograph of the film. It is his fifth collaboration with Woody Allen.