Woody Allen's 'A Rainy Day in New York' would have been the perfect movie to introduce the ageing auteur to Laura and her friends - today's generation of kids whose world-view is infinitely wider than my generation, thanks to Google and the Internet.
It would also have been the movie that Vic, Laura, and I could've watched together since it all had the ingredients that interested each of us - me and Woody's writing, Vic and the Met and NY's wealthy people, and Timothee Chalamet and Selena Gomez kissing for Laura.
A movie that bridges generation.
Unfortunately, as the movie unfolds, I wondered whether Chalamet and Fanning's character were just 'old souls' because they talk like 'old people' and dressed as such - especially Chalamet - whose character possesses a pseudo-sophistication which I have never seen from a college kid of TODAY's generation LOL.
Instead of dancing to inane Tiktok videos shirtless, he looks like a cool GQ model with no money worries.
Anyway, what I love about the movie, like other previous Woody Allen movies are some snippets of humor (this one has so few of them) which are Allen-esque - the gorgeous NY apartments - I got some decorating tips from them; and the flow of the story that just puts people together in places and events just because. It's like getting a surprise everytime you pop into the neighborhood McDonald's.
I also loved watching Diego Luna and see how sexy he is, although gravely underutilized here. A shirtless Timothee and Diego would've made this exciting and homoerotic LOL but Woody never ventures into this territory.
Anyhow, this is very lightweight Woody Allen. I just hope he has not run out of ideas because this movie sure makes it looks like he has!
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