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Title: Café Society (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Steve Carell | ... | Phil Stern | |
| Sheryl Lee | ... | Karen Stern | |
| Todd Weeks | ... | Oscar | |
| Paul Schackman | ... | Al | |
| Jodi Carlisle | ... | Maid | |
| Jeannie Berlin | ... | Rose | |
| Ken Stott | ... | Marty | |
| Richard Portnow | ... | Walt | |
| Jesse Eisenberg | ... | Bobby | |
| Sari Lennick | ... | Evelyn | |
| Stephen Kunken | ... | Leonard | |
| Laurel Griggs | ... | Evelyn's Daughter | |
| Corey Stoll | ... | Ben | |
| Saul Stein | ... | Ben's Hood | |
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Gabriel Millman | ... | Ben's Hood |
In 1930's Hollywood, the powerful agent, Phil Stern, is attending a party and receives a phone call from his sister living in New York. She asks for a job for her son and Phil's nephew, Bobby, who decided to move to Hollywood. Three weeks later Phil schedules a meeting with Bobby and decides to help him. He asks his secretary Veronica "Vonnie" to hang around with Bobby, showing him the touristic places. Bobby immediately falls in love with Vonnie, but she tells that she has a boyfriend, a journalist that travels most of the time. However, Vonnie's boyfriend is indeed a married man that is also in love with her and soon she has to make a choice between her two loves. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Woody Allen's latest, which opened yesterday in Paris and at the Cannes Festival, is a gentle and thoughtful examination of love. Jesse Eisenberg, best known for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, plays Bobby, a young New Yorker who heads out to Hollywood in search of an exciting future. He falls for Vonnie (Kristin Stewart of Twilight fame), the secretary of his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a successful producer, and is soon confronted with the fact that she has a mysterious lover. The resulting confusion is worthy of Allen's mentor, Anton Chekhov. In an interview in the French magazine l'Obs, Allen remembers his own experience in Hollywood, talking to a producer who cut him off to take a call from Fred Astaire. We soon meet all of the rest of Bobby's family, including a gangster brother and a sister who is married to an intellectual, who offers such wisdom as the quotation, "Live every day like it's your last and some day you'll be right." With brilliant cinematography by Vittorio Storaro and great performances from Eisenberg, Carell and Stewart, the film is one of Allen's most enjoyable in years. The poster features a stylized profile of a woman with a teardrop - love always includes an element of sadness, even as it brings laughter and self-realization. A French review of the Cannes opening compares Allen to Ernst Lubitsch, master of urbane comedies of manners in the 1930's.