The least Woody Allen movie in recent years, but overall it's still pretty good

Madilyn 2022-04-21 09:03:43

The most intense Woody film in recent years. Mainly thanks to Kate's super performance, it was even more maddening than the last time Blue Jasmine. There is also the cousin in the atonement, looking at that face, I always feel that there is a conspiracy behind it, but I didn't expect her to play the role of a little white rabbit. As for Boss Jia, the pop star is so impressed that I always feel that he is sitting on the observation deck and will sing to the camera, making people forget that this is a Woody Allen film. But it is also a good thing to jump out of the routine frame from another called reading. Finally, the lighting of this film is textbook level!

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  • Eveline 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    It's not as bad as the media reviews, and although it doesn't talk about any meaningful topics and really "5 drafts away from a filmable script", Woody is still Woody, Winslet is still Winslet, and it's not boring to watch.

  • Antonio 2022-03-10 08:01:27

    Under the rain, in the garden, the crime and punishment of the seaside paradise, the wife falling in love with the lifeguard, the silent phone, the arson... Woody Allen is also very slippery playing Chekhov and Eugene O'Neal

Wonder Wheel quotes

  • [last lines]

    Humpty: Talked to Carney and Ryan. They're goin' fishin' Labor Day. You wanna go?

    Ginny: No. I don't like fishing.

  • [first lines]

    Mickey: [narrating] Coney Island, 1950's. The beach, the boardwalk. Once a luminous jewel, but growing relentlessly seedier as the tides roll in and out. Summers I work here on Bay 7. Comes the fall, I'm a student at New York University going for my Master's in European drama. I'm Mickey Rubin. Poetic by nature. I harbor dreams of being a writer. A writer of truly great plays, so I can one day surprise everyone and turn out a profound masterpiece.

    Mickey: [to the camera] Anyhow. Let me get to the story in which I am a character, so, be warned, as a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger-than-life characters. Enter Carolina...