Shadows and Fog. Woody Allen. 1991. ⚁
This is it! The final movie of the Woody Allen box set I bought some years back:
This is one movie I don’t recall… I think it’s from after I stopped watching his movies? Let’s see!
[ten minutes pass]
Wow, this is an odd movie. Sure, it’s a pastiche (and possibly a parody?) of expressionist German cinema, but… just… what? Perhaps it’s just a horrible, horrible DVD transfer, but everything is washed out and awful: It looks like it was filmed on colour stock and then the colours were dropped out? But surely that’s not possible?
And the … performances… Yes, I know, it’s meant to be funny, but it’s not. It’s like a parody in search of a subject.
Ah:
Recalling the film’s critical and commercial failure in his 2020 memoir, Apropos of Nothing, Allen joked that “the filming of Shadows and Fog went off without a hitch except for the movie.”
It really, really bombed.
[ten minutes pass]
It’s got all these famous people… was this movie just an excuse to hob-nob with all these actors?
[the end]
This isn’t a good movie.
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