Stardust Memories

It’s not you, I just can’t feel anything

“Stardust memories” (1980) diretto da Woody Allen. Con Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault.

It was one of those great spring days, it was Sunday, and you knew summer would be coming soon. And I remember that morning Dorrie and I had gone for a walk in the park and come back to the apartment. We were just sort of sitting around and I put on a record of Louie Armstrong, which was music I grew up with, and it was very, very pretty, and I happened to glance over and I saw Dorrie sitting there. And I remember thinking to myself how terrific she was and how much I loved her. And I don’t know, I guess it was a combination of everything, the sound of the music, and the breeze, and how beautiful Dorrie looked to me and for one brief moment everything just seemed to come together perfectly and I felt happy, almost indestructible in a way.
― Woody Allen, Stardust memories

Woody Allen può semi-plagiare Fellini ed essere credibile, così come può riuscire a farmi credere che donne bellissime gli si concedano voluttuosamente una dopo l’altra.

Sfacciate le citazioni, sfacciato il suo narcisismo, ma un’opera d’arte spesso nasce dal coraggio di chi osa.
Nell’universo in cui ci troviamo ora “8 e e 1/2” è stato girato così come lo conosciamo, ma negli altri infiniti universi paralleli e tangenti avrebbe potuto essere girato in maniera diversa. Woody Allen ci mostra come avrebbe potuto essere girato se Federico Fellini fosse nato a New York da una famiglia di origine ebraica.

Woody Allen può americanizzare lo stile Europeo senza farmi storcere il naso, senza farmi pensare “che barbari questi americani che cercano di imitare gli europei”.