"Irrational man" (Irrational man) is the last work of the legendary American director named Woody Allen. At the box office, the picture has collected a good cash, despite the fact that the master's films are not calculated for every spectator. Here and this time, a deep personal drama and a spicy detective entwined in his tape "The Irrational Man". Reviews of the picture - what are they? What did critics and viewers say about the director's next production?
Creators and a short plot of the picture
The film "The Irrational Man," which was published in the press in the summer of 2015, was filmed by Allen in his own script. The director almost always writes screenshots to his work independently. In addition to numerous awards, the master's coin also stores four Oscars for the films Annie Hall, Hannah and her sisters and Midnight in Paris.
"The Irrational Man" is a story about a middle-aged professor that has lost all meaning in life. He desperately searches for him in a thrill: he turns the novel with two women at once, gambling, but it does not bring results. Once Abe Lucas overhears the conversation of the young lady, with whom the grief happened. The fate of her children depends on some unclean judge. Suddenly, the professor decides: if he starts to rid the world of such people as this official, then his life will finally acquire the desired meaning (here there is a similarity with Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment). Only now everyone will still get what they deserve in the finals.
Actors
"Irrational person" reviews got quite mixed. And critics of the CIS countries liked this picture more than the western one.
As for the cast, there are many unknown faces among the performers. But let's start with celebrities first. Recently, the director Woody Allen got a young favorite in the person of actress Emma Stone: he shoots the girl no longer in the first film. Here and this time she got the role of the main character - a student Jill Pollard, with whom the novel was spun by Professor Abe Lucas. By the way, Emma can also be seen in the films "The New Spiderman" and "Birdman".
Joaquin Phoenix played the main male role. He is mainly known for the films "Gladiator", "Cross the Line" and "Master", for which the actor was nominated for Oscar three times. A notable role in the project went to Parker Posey, who is the star of the films "Creek-3" and "Blade: Trinity." Also in the film you can see Jamie Blackley ("If I Stay"), Ethan Phillips ("Residence Permit") and Meredith Hagner (TV series "Louis").
Woody Allen: "The Irrational Man." Criticism
What did the professionals say about Woody Allen's latest film? Unfortunately, nothing good: out of 90 reviews, 60 are negative. The audience took a slightly more favorable view of the project and rated it six points out of ten.
The "Irrational Man" detective, whose critics' comments leave much to be desired, is named one of Allen's worst works. According to many experts, the director "relaxed a little" and did not fully finish his picture: the actors play is very unlikely because the story itself is implausible. To that the director directly borrows the idea and the theme from "Crime and Punishment", however, can not really substantiate the act of his hero. Yes, the detective line, as they say, "is attracted to the ears."
But there are critics who continue to echo that Woody Allen is one of the greatest directors of our time. They see in this film a new interpretation and a rather high meaning.
"Irrational person": reviews of the movie viewers
A simple audience was less demanding than critics. She met the drama "Irrational Man" quite well.
Reviews of the movie say that Woody Allen managed to create a light, simple atmosphere in the film, but at the same time to talk about important things. At the same time, the audience also notices that the director has already expressed all his ideas and thoughts in previous films, and in recent years has just continued to copy himself, borrowing fragments of stories from his own films. In the "Irrational Man" there is little from "Husbands and Wives" and "Match Point", as well as ideas from the classics of Russian literature. In short, to understand how good the new drama from Allen is, is not so easy on the reviews. The best way to form an opinion about this film is to just take it and watch it at your leisure.