Year: 1989 Country: USA . Genre: Comedy Drama Score: 08/10
Cast: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Patrick O'Neal, Deborah Harry, Talia Shire, Heather McComb, Giancarlo Giannini, Carole Bouquet, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner and Mae Questel
three-part film that pays tribute to the city of New York. But the best is who runs each, the first the great Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola's second (if not Sofia Coppola) and the third Woody Allen. If you see this film, if you skip the part of Coppola's okay because it's a real shame that this director can do great things, we make a bad film. As for the other two Scorsese superb, the best of the three getting a more than remarkable and Woody Allen, just funny how often it without going over. It appears that the gestation of this film was due a Woody Allen project, which was material to make a short feature film but did not give it to lengthen. He consulted with his usual producers at that time and they went looking for other directors to the same thing happen to them and wanted to join a three stories of about 40 minutes each. He found none other than Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Copola. The risk of participating in an episodic film is that the end result will be compared with the caretakers, a fact not happen in an independent work. Assumed this risk, three of the best living American directors outlined their particular creations against the backdrop of more recognizable and beloved city of skyscrapers.
Life Lessons (Martin Scorsese) .- Seldom in the history of cinema has portrayed the artist's world as in this short feature film by Martin Scorsese. The urgent need to express the passion that can be swept with a brush and grinding take against the canvas, the need to escape the world around him refuge in a palette of colors, the isolation imposed artistic creation. The life of a painter (great Nick Nolte) is determined by your creative needs. Over your relationship with others and himself, is the desire to express that governs their lives, making that of the other in hell. Several failed marriages and now a girlfriend (Rosanna Arquette), who also serves as his pupil, apprentice and slave to which vampirizes and is sick of him are his emotional baggage. She is with him just because he has nowhere to go, and very reluctantly because he loves his sweeping talent. But not ready to fall again, and torture him, and he bites because is like a child who needs love, affection of a woman and the audience to give you security and confidence. Not to lie, giving her false hope, trying to make her believe that her talent is more so that follow him, incapable of sincere heart, to be generous and help to leave something that transcends it.
But in the end she realizes that he is not going to change, that only wants out of selfishness, and goes to seek a new life that perhaps is most helpful. He will soon find a replacement, another young dazzled by the talent and the opportunity to learn from the genius, disillusioned and one future one step closer to loneliness. The film is told from the perspective of someone who understands and loves the artist, but can not ignore his meanness. There is passion in the staging, in that setup fast pace with frantic strokes of those cranes that involve the study of work, the looks pleading, sad, anxious to those ever elusive colors resemble those created by the mind, to the hardness that transmits the look of a woman hurt. The anthology soundtrack, the organic rhythm of "Witer sade of pale" or "Conquistador" by Procol Harum, forceful "Like a Rolling Stone" from Dylan, or emotional and hypnotic aria "Nesum dorma" from Puccini, helps transmit the intensity of the creative impulse, the force generating misunderstanding. It contributes to the warm picture of the great Nestor Almendros, who makes each painting by a joy to behold, every interior in our dream home, every street in Paradise earth.
Life Without Zoe (Francis Ford Coppola) .- With a script by the very poor and limited Francis and her daughter Sophia, this episode surf the more futile irrelevance. Most valuable where the requirement is to see how a girl tries to unite the lives of their parents for various reasons, are estranged. But without much consistency, quickly bored because the story first incomprehensible at times, and also fails to convey almost nothing from the concepts themselves. Everything is very flat, the characters are flat, and the corresponding development of them does not motivate or excite for anything the viewer who looks totally alien to the circumstances relate. If you miss this episode of forty minutes, as it is strikingly unbearable. Tedious causes apathy. Segment is the most tedious, childish, boring. Music unbearable and bad roles of the actors. Try to be funny without success, it shows the hand of Sofia more than Francis Ford Coppola. A watercress boredom in which neither Giancarlo Giannini and Talia Shire are well. And much lower overall level. For what I saw: Does anyone understand? I mean ... Why include that medium-length? What accounts for what? What's the point? What gives? What do you mean? What, what, what ...? Would he be able to explain it Francis?. It's ridiculous. Dreadful.
Oedipus Shattering (Woody Allen) .- A magician makes disappear the overbearing mother of a lawyer (Woody Allen), but she reappears in the sky of Manhattan to continue meddling publicly in the life of your child. Director prank with some really very funny. In general, it is fun and not boring in about 35 minutes it takes. Woody Allen once again shows he's a genius writing jokes and then when you do capture them on screen just as well that when you type. Jazz music is so fond of Allen, and the actors all do very well his role as Mia Farrow Allen and especially how Queslec Mae, the actress who plays the mother of Woody. As a curiosity that comes out Kirsten Dunst as a daughter of Mia Farrow. Woody Allen discovers in "Shattering Oedipus" one of his most personal works, where the psychological ambivalence than any form of escapism globe. We see the intellectual absurdity, seasoned with heavy doses of empathy, produces a film fun, but exhausting by the clear memory that makes us. With the strong reminiscence process we just want to scream, and just with the typical heavy genital recall having supported a relative who does not know or measure time, nor the words. Allen portrays in its segment to an absorbent mother, overprotective, overbearing and has not ever been able to assimilate your child has grown up.
"New York Stories" is a strange experiment whose purpose is not too bright. The idea that a film is made up of other short films or short films in themselves, may seem somewhat trite now, but at the time of the making of this film was certainly a novelty, especially considering that three of the most Hollywood's great directors met for that. But beyond that point in common (master filmmakers capable of perpetrating countless masterpieces), there is little between these three stories from New York that the cohesion, which becomes a major failure of the film, because unlike other films, for example (the also failed), "New York, I Love You" (2009), no subject, treatment or under observation between the three stories that make the product compact. The central ideas of the three stories have nothing to do with each other, not love, or New York or in New York love, or human qualities of the inhabitants of the city or any higher concept. But despite the irrelevance of the segments I think the most achieved is the master Scorsese film away from the cold, distant, extreme characters away from our everyday experience that both like to Scorsese segment transmits to us the truth of creation, making us partakers of birth pain of beauty. Scorsese has never been so close to their characters as here.
"Two prowess and a disappointment"
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