Whatever Works - Basta che funzioni

Peter Travers

Not everything works in Woody Allen’s first New York–based movie in five years (he’s gone European). Whatever Works feels like something out of time and, worse, out of step. Hell, Allen wrote the script back in the 1970s for Zero Mostel. The grumpy old Jew at the center of this comedy of complaints — divorced physicist and two–time suicide attempter Boris Yellnikoff — is played not by Allen, 73, but by Larry David, 61. Allen wanted to go younger and angrier. Enter David, the fulminating joke engine of Curb Your Enthusiasm, whose Boris kvetches at the camera (meaning us) just like Allen’s Alvy Singer did in Annie Hall in 1977. [...]

di Peter Travers, articolo completo (2321 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Rolling Stone 18 giugno 2009