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Tony Roberts  : Maxwell

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Miscellaneous Sites

• Aller au cinema (French)
• Filmhai - info (German)
• IMCDb.org: cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles seen in this production
• Indiemoviez (Spanish)
• MovieMeter (Dutch)
• Moviereporter.de (German)
• PremierFilm.hu (Hungarian)
• SoundtrackCollector - Soundtrack Information
• Zelluloid.de (German)

Photographs

• Filmreporter.de - Image Gallery (German)
• Moviereporter - Image Gallery
• carteles.metropoliglobal.com
• filmposter-archiv.de - German movie poster
• LAMP - Cinema Poster Archive
• MoTechPosters
• MoviePosterDB.com
• Theatrical Movie Poster

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Mary Steenburgen & Julie Hagerty

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DVD Classik
ANALYSE ET CRITIQUE
 
Woody Allen rend hommage à Ingmar Bergman (et son Sourires d’une nuit d’été) avec cette fantaisie en forme de clin d’œil au grand Shakespeare. Au son du Songe d’une nuit d’été de Mendelssohn, il met en scène un marivaudage dont la légèreté cache un temps la profonde tristesse. Le cinéaste y parle des difficultés de l’amour, de la crainte de la mort et de la recherche du bonheur. Au cours de ce week-end bucolique, chassé-croisé où chacun essaye de conjurer une histoire d’amour déçue, les six personnages questionnent leurs certitudes, se demandent s’il n’est pas encore temps pour eux d’imaginer une nouvelle histoire d’amour de s’essayer à une autre vie.

Et comme l’homme a toujours du mal à s’extraire de sa vie pour parvenir à la scruter d’un œil neuf, la nature et la magie viennent à la rescousse.Allen baigne son film dans la douceur,la féerie,les couleurs enchantées les sensations de chaleur, de vent et de lumières.Ce qui peut être vu comme une fantaisie légère dans la carrière du cinéaste, se révèle, par sa délicatesse, sa beauté simple et sa sensibilité, comme l’une de ses plus éclatantes réussites. Allen a ce don d’offrir sous une apparente superficialité des œuvres graves et profondes.

Comédie érotique d’une nuit d’été tranche ainsi radicalement par sa forme avec Stardust Memories, film mal aimé, trop radical, sombre et complexe pour ses admirateurs d’alors.Pourtant, le discours est presque aussi sombre, la redistribution des cartes amoureuses que propose ce marivaudage ne tendant qu’à montrer l’impossible accord entre les désirs, les rêves et la forcément décevante réalité. Mais par la beauté (presque cliché) de ses images,son humour tour à tour délicat et grivois,par le plaisir du jeu qui court de la première à la dernière image, le film laisse le sentiment d’une douce ébriété. Une merveille.

Olivier Bitoun

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Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy) est un film américain écrit et réalisé par Woody Allen,sorti sur les écrans en 1982.Ce titre fait référence à la comédie de William Shakespeare : Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream).

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Cast
Woody Allen  : Andrew
Mia Farrow  : Ariel
José Ferrer  : Leopold
Julie Hagerty  : Dulcy
Tony Roberts  : Maxwell
Mary Steenburgen  : Adrian
Adam Redfield  : Foxx

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-Woody Allen has always strenuously denied that the film is autobiographical. Allen has said in the book "Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman" (1994): "[Critics] thought that the lead character was me. Not a fictional character but me. Not a fictional character but me, and that I was expressing hostility towards my audience. That was in no way the point of the film. It was about a character who is obviously having a sort of nervous breakdown and, in spite of success, has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time".
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-The movie is based on weekend film festivals that were hosted by movie critic Judith Crist, who can be seen in a cameo in Sandy Bates' magician fantasy.
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-Working title for this film was "Woody Allen No. 4". Allen told an interviewer that "I am not even half of the Fellini of Huit et demi (1963)".
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-This film largely stemmed from a riposte by Woody Allen to a hostile article written about him by novelist Joan Didion, and to the Academy's seeming indifference to his "serious" film Intérieurs (1978).(boring i'd say) This explains the film's relatively sour mood towards the critical community and indeed the movie-going public.

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Woody grows-up and makes fun of himself.
9/10
Author: mifunesamurai from Australia
20 January 2002

Woody has a good look at himself as his career changes from the funny man with glasses who now wants to make serious films. Fun with black and white photography, taking the piss out of Ingmar Bergman's film style and turning serious is all part of Woody's maturity.

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Charlotte Rampling :Dorie

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excellent!
10/10
Author: Ian (ianfire50@aol.com) from london
28 May 2000

Contrary to popular and critical opinion, this is Woody Allen's Best film. Yes, better than Manhattan or Annie Hall and all the others (about 30 i think). It is his best film because it is his most truthful,and it's angry.Critics dont like it because it attacks critics.But it is inventive brillantly imaginative and purely cinematic, the narrative is almost non-existent and the film is really feelings put onto celluloid, in this sense it is a very PURE film, and probably autobiographical.

Although no doubt Allen would deny this! I love the off-beat characters , and its also a very atmospheric film. I have seen about 25 Woody Allen films and think this is the most honest of them all.

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An Allen Classic
10/10
Author: Slothrop-7 from Canada
15 April 1999

In my opinion, Stardust Memories is Allen's greatest achievement. The film perceptively explores the relationships between art and reality, between the artist and his work, between the work and its consumers. Beyond its philosophic concerns though, this is also an incredibly funny film.

There are more genuinely funny moments within this serious film than in many of Allen's earlier pure comedies. It skewers the movie industry, the movie-going public, Allen's own earlier work, Allen's present insecurities (surprise!), and a number of other targets. Intelligent, thought provoking, and at times hilarious, this film is an overlooked gem in the Allen canon.

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A little self induldgent, but brilliantly so
10/10
Author: silvertron from Seattle, WA
14 September 2003

While this film doesn't get the praise and respect of, say, "Annie Hall" or "Manhattan," I think it is a brilliant look into the mind of a film director. How much of Woody Allen is Sandy Bates? Some, I'm sure, but I think it's more interesting to compare Sandy to Woody Allen's "persona"--that is, who the public thinks he is.

The structure of the film is also quite interesting to me. Allen had done a very non-linear story structure, mixed with occasional flights of fantasy, in "Annie Hall," but "Stardust Memories" does that and piles on a movie within a movie within a movie, and manages to both comment on all that, at the same time as he's telling the story of the brilliant, but self-absorbed Sandy Bates. A great movie, that you probably should see more than once to appreciate.