Starry midnight in Paris
This is the poster for Woody Allen's opening night film at Cannes2011. Here's a story on early festival plans by Anne Thompson.
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Great poster!
Woody Allen should have retired thirty years ago, when his wit could keep up with his pretentiousness. In the beginning of his career he could do a good job ripping off Bergman and creating pseudo intellectual characters saying quotable one liners. He could get away with his psychoanalist shtick, his jazz, his intellectual elite. But he doesn't have originality to develop themes of his own, or present them in ways that go beyond glossy comedy. Woody Allen has just rehashed better art and gotten away with it. I just don't think he can be called a great artist. Now look at the poster for his new film: a successful man realizes how good his life is while walking along the Seine, under a sky from a Van Gogh painting. What is Woody trying to say? Why put "The Starry Night", in which van Gogh portrayed his madness, his pain, his vertigo, on this scene?
Dreadful poster
@Henrique
I'm excited for it. Nothing could match the pretentiousness as your name.
@Henrique
"he doesn't have originality to develop themes of his own, or present them in ways that go beyond glossy comedy"
Oh, really? While I'm not going to defend his output post '97, anyone who describes his entire body of work as 'glossy comedies' is a dribbling moron. Have you seen 'Deconstructing Harry', 'Zelig', 'Husbands and Wives', 'Annie Hall', 'Manhattan', 'Hannah and Her Sisters'? If you haven't, please don't watch them. They deserve better eyes.