Rifkin's Festival (PG-13)

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synopsis

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards. Turned off by the lavish praise showered on Philippe's film, which he considers banal, Mort becomes preoccupied with the cinema classics he once taught as a professor, by masters like Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut, and Buñuel. Mort's relentlessly dismissive opinions of Philippe, Sue's current focus as a professional and someone she greatly admires, strains their already frayed relationship.

details

Comedy
1 hr. 32 min.
Opened January 28th, 2022

director

Woody Allen

writer

Woody Allen

MovieGoer Review

It has been nearly a decade since Woody Allen last made an enjoyable movie (that distinction would go to either 2011's Midnight in Paris or 2013's Blue Jasmine, depending on individual preferences). Since then, over the span of five feature... MORE

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synopsis

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards. Turned off by the lavish praise showered on Philippe's film, which he considers banal, Mort becomes preoccupied with the cinema classics he once taught as a professor, by masters like Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut, and Buñuel. Mort's relentlessly dismissive opinions of Philippe, Sue's current focus as a professional and someone she greatly admires, strains their already frayed relationship.

details

Comedy
1 hr. 32 min.
Opened January 28th, 2022

director

Woody Allen

writer

Woody Allen

MovieGoer Review

It has been nearly a decade since Woody Allen last made an enjoyable movie (that distinction would go to either 2011's Midnight in Paris or 2013's Blue Jasmine, depending on individual preferences). Since then, over the span of five feature... MORE