Following something as successful as Midnight in Paris — which became both a Best Picture nominee as well as the highest-grossing picture of Woody Allen’s career — was never going to be easy. Allen struck gold in that one, finding an ideal surrogate for himself in Owen Wilson and allowing everyone, for the time being, to repress the fact that his recent output has been so erratically scattershot. Unfortunately, his latest Eurotrip, To Rome with Love, brings those memories back in a hurry, with the narrative-vignette approach ultimately revealing a desert-dry uncertainty rather than a purposeful overriding agenda.
Let’s start with the strangest and, even if it doesn’t make good on its promise, most potentially illuminating of these threads. Ellen Page — in a role that makes her slight misplacement in Inception look like a stroke of casting genius — plays Monica, who, as we’re so bullheadedly told time and time again,...
Let’s start with the strangest and, even if it doesn’t make good on its promise, most potentially illuminating of these threads. Ellen Page — in a role that makes her slight misplacement in Inception look like a stroke of casting genius — plays Monica, who, as we’re so bullheadedly told time and time again,...
- 7/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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