Looks like a return to the large cast multiple storyline format we haven't seen since Melinda and Melinda, though arguably it more resembles Everyone Says I Love You in its focus on families. Entertainment Weekly said:
"The film is notable, if that’s the word, for being the first movie Allen has made in London that is every bit as bad as his most awful New York comedies, like Anything Else and Melinda and Melinda."Considering they were two of my favourite films of noughties, if that's the standard, I'm very excited and look forward to the UK release in 2014 (presumably).
Some casting notes:
Josh Brolin is playing the Woody Allen figure. Look at the jacket. The gesticulations.
Antonio Banderas previously appeared in faux-Woody classic Miami Rhapsody.
Lucy Punch is playing a character called Charmaine. Remind me to tell you about what that name means to me some time. Her role was originally filled by Nicole Kidman. Judging by the trailer the whole thing has been re-conceived.
Anthony Hopkins's dialogue has an Interiors flavour, as does that subplot. Though obviously in a comic style.
Gemma Jones is finally able to knock "Woody Allen" film off her long list of career achievements.
This was Freida Pinto's first project after Slumdog Millionare. She seems to be filling roughly the same exotica role as Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Julia Roberts in Everyone Says I Love You.
Naomi Watts is using her Eastern Promises English accent.
Ewen Bremner returns from Match Point where he played Inspector Dowd.
Rupert Frazer returns from Scoop where he played an Antique Shop Man
Anna Friel is in the "rest of cast listed alphabetically" section. But at least she too now has a Woody Allen story.
Neil Jackson played Lucas in Flashforward.
Christian McKay gave that fantastic performance as in the title role Me & Orson Welles. So in my head Welles has finally worked with Woody. Ish.
Also ...
Who's in it from Doctor Who?
Pauline Collins as Cristal Delgiorno
Played Samantha Briggs in The Faceless Ones and Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw.
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Jonathan
Was Mr.Garrett in Torchwood's Random Shoes
Meanwhile, 'Sleeper' House From 1973 Woody Allen Movie May Face Foreclosure.
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