“Invokes the mood of an early Fellini film as it swirls through the troubled recollections of a film director, played by Mr Allen.”
Woody Allen stars as Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker who wants to make serious cinema but is frustrated by his audience’s preference for his “early funny films”. He reluctantly accepts an invitation to a weekend-long festival conducted in his honour, over the course of which he reconsiders his cinematic and romantic accomplishments, as past and present, and fact and fiction overlap in glorious black and white. Allen’s own favourite of his films – and perhaps the most revealing as a portrait of the artist - is also his most experimental and unique, with a cast includes Charlotte Rampling and Woody-regular Tony Roberts.
