What is love?
A married woman of the upper social class leads the life that usually
those women lead: her time time is divided between directing her servants' housework, her children, the hairdresser's and beauty parlour, the shopping, the social parties and events, the meeting with her female friends whose conversation is limited to gossip and the stories of who sleeps with whom now, etc.. Her husband is a nice man who treats her well but doesn't pay much importance to her and has not great regard for her abilities besides those mentioned. This begins to change first when she meets another man with him she falls in love (without stopping loving her husband in a different kind of love of course) and second when she enters in contact with oriental philosophy and medicine in the person of an oriental doctor who uses hypnotics, herbs and even magics to treat his patients. There she begins to loathe the life she has led till then and several episodes follow till she finds at last the solution in the end. I am a fan of Woody Allen's movies because he deals in an intelligent way with our daily problems chiefly with our marital and sentimental lives and is never dull or fastidious. He is the only movie director I know who can introduce philosophy in a movie without being tedious and on contrary doing it even with humour without falling into superficiality. All our bourgeois life problems are treated in his movies in a very clever humorous way which don't make them less serious. His female characters are almost always predominant. In this movie we can ask what is love after observing the behaviour of the woman (one of the best roles of Mia Farrow), her husband and her lover. In whom can a woman trust after all when she wants (and deserves) to be loved? This movie is very serious despite the humour and even the magic fantasy present at some of its scenes. And its values are very positive and true.. Mia Farrow in Wonderland
I knew "Alice" wouldn't be great but it was definitely good.
Mia Farrow plays a Manhattan housewife version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Visits to a Chinese herbal remedist are her rabbit hole. Her world becomes one of magical nonsense, Topsy turvy, but with Allen's usual Chekhovian dialogue and character relationships. It's also a moving account of one woman's journey to fulfillment. I always love the endings of Woody Allen movies and I found this one to be a particularly pleasant surprise while also being very encouraging and uplifting. William Hurt, Joe Montangea and Alec Baldwin are all good as the men in her life, and Bernadette Peters is especially great as the Muse. A must-see for Woody Allen fans who keep their expectations down.. |
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