Rifkin's Festival (2020)
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
Spain / United States / Italy
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya and Gina Gershon
IMDb score:
6,1 (10.707)
Releasedate: 1 October 2020
Rifkin's Festival plot
Former film teacher Mort Rifkin accompanies his much younger wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival where she takes care of the publicity for director Philippe's new film, whose latest film will premiere there. Mort suspects that there is more going on between Sue and Philippe and begins to experience nightmares and his heart. For the latter he seeks help from general practitioner Jo Rojas, who lived around the corner from Mort in New York for a while and appears to like the same films. While Sue is busy at work during the day, Mort tries to trick his doctor into an appointment outside her practice.
Actors and actresses
Mort Rifkin
Sue
Philippe
Jo Rojas
Tomás López
Jake
Death
Paco
Gil Brenner
Delores
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13232 messages
- 11124 votes
Good film about a man who goes to a film festival with his wife because she has a job there. A simple plot, but with fine dialogues and here and there reasonable meta with small odes to mainly classics of European cinema. Enough beautiful pictures of sunny San Sebastian and Wallace Shawn acts as a stand-in for Woody Allen. A small 3.5 stars.
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klara
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- 814 messages
- 20367 votes
Allen continues to be productive with lately especially little captivating little ones,
like this movie. But they remain films that are pleasant to look at, especially in terms of dialogues
typical Allen movies. The dream sequences are beautiful, but is it otherwise quite noncommittal
with the usual worries in the relational sphere in which the character of the protagonist
Wallace Shawn even bears some resemblance to many of Allen's own roles. A
intellectual with (slightly) nervous traits.
Besides work by Bergman and Fellini, saw Allen also quote from the film El Angel
Exterminador by Bunuel, who, like Fellini and Bergman, is also discussed in dialogue
coming. A long time ago, Allen in Stardust Memories also referred to movies a lot
from Fellini.
The funniest role is for Sergi Lopez as the painter Paco especially in the scene
in which he is caught in his home / studio in bed with a model by his lover
which the also present Shawn has a crush on. Unfortunately, the film has mostly
a babbling character without, however, being bored. That will still be
always be Allen's class, with the fresh dialogues.
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