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TO ROME WITH LOVE:
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directed by Woody Allen. Edited by Alisa Lepselter.
Cinematography, Darius Khondji. Starring Woody
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Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Greta
Gerwig. Sony Pictures Classics, 2012. R. In English
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W
oody Allen is a great American
fi lmmaker, though I’m not sure
if I should place that somewhat
queasy statement in quotation marks or
simply note that, as an assertion, it drags the
luggage of several qualifi ers. Among those
qualifi ers I would list: limited, in that Allen
has, for most of his career, set his movies in
the hermetic dreamland of a New York City
suspiciously devoid of ethnic diversity;
imitative, in that his reputation largely
depends on Americanizing the visions
of such legendary directors as Bergman
and Fellini; and, most diffi cult to explain,
slight, meaning his fi lms, no matter how
masterfully rendered, seem to skim along
an existential plane that is all surfaces,
quirks, neuroses and erotic complication,
without ever feeling truly cathartic or
revelatory.
Alas, I am now in the uncomfortable
position of having called Woody Allen a
great, albeit limited, imitative and slight,
American fi lmmaker. Uncomfortable,
because there are several Woody Allen
movies I like quite a bit, and a few I
actually like quite a lot, though none I truly
love. Annie Hall, of course, is irresistibly
charming, but Manhattan is better; Zelig
is fantastic; his New York Stories segment
truly sucked, and Crimes & Misdemeanors
sucked just a little less; Bullets Over
Broadway is underrated; Hannah & Her
Sisters is a minor classic; Husbands and
Wives was pretty damn stunning, but
Deconstructing Harry, though severely
fl awed, might just be my favorite; and
his late-career fl icks, like the compelling
Match Point, have been surprisingly solid.
What the best of these fi lms share in
common is a fl itting, wry intelligence and
secular inwardness that amounts, ironically,
to a kind of patchwork, serialized portrait
of the artist as a mirror. This director’s body
of work, stretching six decades now, is not
so much autobiographical as auto-erotic
— the masturbatory oeuvre as aesthetic
wish fulfi llment. Woody Allen is to movies
what Philip Roth is to fi ction. As much as
anything, a Woody Allen movie is about
Woody Allen’s love affair with movies.
To Rome with Love is Woody Allen’s 44th
feature fi lm, but who’s counting? From the
opening credits — stark white lettering on a
slate of black, announcing a huge ensemble
cast — we are unmistakably in the hands of
Woody Allen, who also appears on screen
for the fi rst time since 2006’s Scoop. Seated
beside his wife (Judy Davis) on an airplane
bound for Italy, kvetching about his fear
of turbulence, Woody is a strange sight
indeed — at 76, he appears not so much to
have aged as to have receded, like a photo
bleached out by time. There is something
slightly Mr. Magoo-ish about him now, his
wit and chops not so much diminished as
internalized in self-caricature.
The massive cast — which also
includes Alec Baldwin (always good),
Roberto Benigni (typically annoying),
Jesse Eisenberg (charming as usual),
Greta Gerwig (cute, and released from
mumblecore at last), Penélope Cruz (at her
comic best, and gorgeous), and Ellen Page
(simply brilliant) — is put in service of a
handful of stories, connected not to each
other but through the fi lm’s only unlisted
cast member, Rome itself, which is lovingly
rendered by cinematographer Darius
Khondji, who also shot Allen’s Midnight
in Paris as well as David Fincher’s
exquisitely-wrought breakout fi lm, Seven.
As a Woody Allen fi lm, To Rome with
Love is slighter than usual, but pleasant
enough. The love triangle that forms among
Eisenberg, Gerwig and Page is far and away
the movie’s strongest strand, thanks in
large part to the sophisticated sexuality and
subtle vacuity of Page’s turn as an aspiring
actor. Fabio Armiliato — who plays the
father of Allen and Davis’ daughter (Alison
Pill)’s boyfriend (Flavio Parenti) — is a
revelation as an everyman possessed of a
Pavarotti-caliber opera voice — but only in
the shower. Of course, you can guess where
this leads …
In fact, from the fi rst scene to the fi nal
curtain, you will fi nd very little you can’t
predict about To Rome with Love, though
thanks to some strong writing on the part
of Allen and a handful of energetic per-
formances, it all seems disarmingly fresh.
That might be the best barometer of wheth-
er you’ll like this movie. For my part, I
found myself still willing to follow Woody
Allen to Italy, where he scratches “Wish
You Were Here” on the back of a cinematic
postcard.
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