The Purple Rose of Cairo REVIEW

[lakshmimittal]

...consistently sharp, clever and often hilarious movies. I'm talking about his 'early, funny' of the 70s: Sleeper is a hilarious, far-sighted melding of science fiction and New York Jewish humour; Annie Hall is the definitive love story for all us neurotic romantics(!); and Love and Death, my favourite of his movies, is his most ambitious work, teeming with both philosophical insight and quality dick jokes! See it NOW!:-

[lakshmimittal]

Well that was completely superficial.

Also loved this movie when I saw it, and it really isn't giving anything away to say that the dashing male lead in Mia Farrow's favourite movie descends from the screen into real life, with amusing consequences!

Haven't seen it for years so recall of plot is a little fuzzy. Pretty good for 80's Woody when he was often pretentious (ever tried watching September?) and straining too hard to be Bergman, when he had his own unique voice which produced...

[boitenvalise]

taxing, problematic; life with Gil is a fantasy. Woody Allen ended the movie beautifully by having Gil leave, underscoring both the fantasy aspect that a possible resolution of Mia and Gil ending would have had and the realism of his films.

[boitenvalise]

I just want to point out the irony in Mia's choice of choosing Gil over Tom. While most people assume that Gil represents reality and Tom represents fantasy, the reverse is actually true. What Gil offers for Mia is the ultimate real fantasy: a young, handsome, rich man whisking her off to hollywood. What Tom offers is imperfect reality: in love with a fictionally perfect character who is fundamentally flawed due to the nature of his existence. Life with Tom would have been difficult,

[boitenvalise]

what an idiot. this is a horrible review.

[Magnolia296]

I love the idea when on-screen hero becomes real like in The Purple Rose of Cairo or Last Action Hero. Mia Farrow showed brilliant acting. Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello were great as well. For me, the ending could have been better. Anyway I love this movie.

[thornbird7556]

Match Point is Woody's best film.

[lowconceptreviews]

I thought Crimes and Misdemeanors, which Match Point was based on, was a better movie.

[astroshape]

Of course!!! MatchPoint is a poor man's Crimes and Misdemeanors

[director23j]

In all honesty, I was in tears, litterally, tears when that scene you don't mention came up on the screen, it's a beautiful scene...it really is. The thought of it...it really is something special.