MATCH POINT d: Woody Allen
Match Point (2005)
Direction and screenplay: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton
If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay co-written by Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, and based on Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, the result would be something like Woody Allen’s latest opus, Match Point. A dark fable about the vagaries of chance in a godless world, Allen’s aesthetically old-fashioned crime drama belies a haunting postmodern sensibility.
Set in London, the basic plot of Match Point follows certain key elements of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy: After experiencing the joys of wealth and high social standing (read: power), an ambitious petit bourgeois resorts to whatever it takes to maintain his newfound status. Between the [...]
by Andre Soares | December 17, 2005
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Tags: Crime Movies, Emily Mortimer, Film Reviews, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point, Matthew Goode, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Woody Allen
