Early, Funny—Stardust Memories
2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s2215-0366(16)00011-0
ISSN2215-0374
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoStardust Memories (1980) wasn't much of a success with critics or audiences, but for director Woody Allen it's a favourite among his own films for being “the one … that I finally got into the mind completely…” Allen had been inside heads before: Annie Hall features scenes set inside the minds of lead characters Alvy and Annie, but the action in Stardust Memories exists entirely in the imagination of film director Sandy Bates. As a destination, it would get a bad Tripadvisor rating. Bates has turned his back on the comedies that made his name and is now making arthouse films reminiscent of Federico Fellini. His audience, or at least the one in his head, wishes he'd go back to the style of his “early, funny” movies. His housekeeper brings that still life staple, a dead rabbit, to cook for dinner, reminding Bates of his own mortality. He's worried by romantic relationships past and present. If the interior décor of Sandy's apartment is any kind of indicator of his state of mind, then his agonising choice of wallpaper—Eddie Adams' infamous 1968 image of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon—hardly bodes well.
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