Review of Café Society (2016) by Nedryerson1 — 25 Feb 2017

Café Society is definitely the proof that the Woody Allen we used to know is gone. With few successes in the past years (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Match Point and Blue Jasmine) and too many failures (I gave up with Magic in the Moonlight, didn’t see the one from last year, but reconsider another opportunity for this one), Café Society is one more from the bunch.

Boring story, nonexistent plot, flat and simple-minded characters, terrible cast and awful performances. The script is classic of Woody Allen, but it gave us nothing new, just the irony, paranoia and false superiority of all the previous works; and frankly, that’s not enough anymore.

Times have changed, the viewer is more sophisticated and used to clever and demanding plots, but Allen is the same old man, refusing to admit his mistakes.