Mort Rifkin, film teacher and failed writer, sees his married life shattered. © Frenetic Films
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Published on 16.02.2022
Rifkin’s Festival » With more than fifty years in the business and a few great films to his credit (Bananas, Manhattan, Match Point), Woody Allen has, in his own way, marked the history of cinema. Although in disgrace lately, he has undeniably imposed his music. His heroes are quickly recognizable: always disillusioned, clumsy and in complete love disarray. Rifkins’Festival is therefore to be seen as a summary of the filmmaker’s work… In third age mode. Through the very banal story of a mature man torn between the monotony of a marriage in danger and the enthusiasm of a young holiday crush, in the heart of a small sunny Spanish town, the New Yorker in love with European cinema revisits the classics