Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, o elenco é fraco, mas ninguém ajudou a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e mais relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom.

Huge fan of Woody Allen, but he has hits and misses...this might be his biggest miss ever!

Pleasant enough Woody Allen movie, with some smiles and even short laughs along the way. The misanthropic protagonist does get on one's nerves after a while, as does the young lady's apparent naivité or acceptance of his truth as hers. Though a short movie, it seemed a bit too long after a while. And the ending obviously was too neat.

It works; dialogues are crispy, every character is well drawn and makes sense.

Filme gostoso demais. Atuação brilhante de Larry David quebrando a "quarta parede" , é só mais um ingrediente para o filme ser espetacular.

I think the biggest issue is that you would expect a synergy of Woody Allen and Larry David to provide a staggeringly funny film. This film is good, but not of that proportion. David plays, essentially, the same curmudgeon he normally plays, which is a merger of his and Allen's personality. Unlike the David of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm the issue with this David is his demeanor is a little forced. Also, he is a little more aggressive than David actually is in a non-appealing way. It has the structure of an Allen play, and many of the positive aspects of Allen movies. I liked the characters and there are some laughs, but too much left on the table for me.

온라인카지노추천 star Larry David brings the screen in a romantic comedy among NY's streets with a restricted cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Bagley jr., Micheal McKean and Henry Cavill. Under Allen's direction (for once only behind the screen) Whatever works plays with human's strangeness and explores Great Apple's suburbs that Hollywood usually ignores. Furthermore, despite the passing years, Woody never loses his sarcasm and humor, softening the difficulties of life. Moreover the movie, shot in 2008, is the first after the European period (Match Point, Scoop, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and others): Boris Yelnikoff, a misanthropic former quantum mechanics professor at Columbia University, after another suicide attempt, leaves his wife and decides to live in a small apartment in the suburbs teaching chess in the park. He usually escapes from people because of their ignorance and spends his time talking with his few friends, and with his bizarre habits, like washing his hands singing "Happy Birthday". One night before entering at home a simpleminded praises him of giving her a help: he accepts and starts to share his house with Melody (Wood) , a 21-years old girl escaped from her rich parents in Missisippi because of their religious fundamentalism. He is old and tired of life, hates everything and everyone, while she's young, full of dreams and excited to live a new life across NY's little universe: their continuously fight is absolutely exhilarating. In the meanwhile, her mother Marietta (Clarkson) finds her and decides to mover her from Boris' house, but a little detail blocks her plan: Boris and Melody indeed had married after her's emphasis (she really loved him). Thus Marietta, who decides to completely revolution her life by opening herself to NY's freedom and absence of moral impositions, devises a plot in order to make fall in love Melody with Randy (Cavill), a guy that has tried to approach her. At the end, like for the funny and confused Melody's father John (Ed Bagley Jr.), destiny's (or God?) has a hidden plan for all of us that slowly comes out and realizes itself with or without our plain support. Passing by the usual curated jazz score, I want to mention the work behind the setting, almost always inside apartments, bars and art galleries that gaves the idea of a gathered and restricted production, typical of Allen's, who never needs milions over milions in order to create good and enjoyable movies. To appreciate all the actors' performances.

I've seen this movie many times and I know I will see it again.

This movie is perfect. Nothing to remove and nothing to add, it's a humanity ode.

I am not sure if it is because I haven't seen a Woody Allen in quite some time or what but I really liked this movie. Larry David plays Woody Allen, like Woody Allen has done with it's leads since the 2000, and he does a great job at playing the "guy that sees the full picture". This is a comedy more than other Allen movies that also go for the drama. I loved the witty dialogue that comes from facing this "know all New Yorker character with this "not genius" ones. This movie is Allen's fantasies turn into a script.

Carino il personaggio di Boris, divertente ed arguto, Ma tutto il resto? sembra che Woody Allen si sia dimenticato di sviluppare trama ed altri personaggi, come se avesse consegnato una bozza del prodotto finale.

This is the third Woody Allen movie I watch and, for the third time, I ended up very glad I did it (52 more to go!). I acknowledge this one might not please everyone as the humor is more acid and dark but I still think it is a very fun, well written and captivating story. Boris, the main character, is a man that has lived enough years to understand that life is frequently irrational and that odds are not aways at your favor. This thought seems to keep banging in his head constantly as he, considering himself to be a genius, reflects about death, college, diseases and people in general - letting everyone know about his thougths. While he uses complicated words and references and constantly belittles people around him, he seems to be just using these tools to protect himself from further disappointments that could intensify his depression. And then, all of a sudden, he meets a young girl that is his complete opposite: young, attractive, full of energy, naivety and positivism. When she appears early in the film, it seems kind of predictable that they will end up in a relationship but it does not really matter because what happens later is the focus of the movie. I might be tripping here but, in my view, this movie is about self-discovery. Some of the characters in the movie struggle against their feelings and desires only to realize they cannot run away from them so it is best that they sit, have a drink and understand who they really are. Others, like Boris, seem to exaggerate this concept, believing he not only knows himself too well but that he knows the world too well. Well, he doesn't.

Il messaggio alla base del film è chiaro e trasparente fin dai primi minuti, un concetto duro, profondo e provocatorio che è difficile da ignorare. Con delle premesse del genere, tuttavia, il film necessitava una narrazione più incisiva e decisamente più articolata. La leggerezza e il particolare umorismo della trama classica dei film di Woody Allen non si addice alla perfezione a queste imponenti premesse narrative.

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Some films are just so stylish and full of beautiful imagery that it is hard to not to enjoy yourself while watching them. This could describe most of the films produced during the later period of Woody Allen's career as Café Society (2016) benefits from Vittorio Storaro's stunning visuals but unfortunately this film does not boast even those surface pleasures to recommend it. There is a throwaway story at the center of the film that keeps it moving along for over ninety minutes and dialogue that sounds like an imitation of Allen's late 1970s work. I yearned for the fluffiness of Alice (1990) and the brilliant Mia Farrow while watching this film as there was none of the fun of that phase of Allen's career. Former quantum mechanics professor Boris Yelnikoff, Larry David, claims to have been in the running for a Nobel Prize but spends his days teaching children how to play chess and talking to his similarly depressed, middle aged friends. His life changes when he meets drifter Melody, Evan Rachel Wood, who comes from a small town and hopes to make it big in New York City despite her uncultured ways and lack of skills. Yelnikoff trains her but the two end up falling in love in the process and are married. When Melody's estranged mother Marietta, Patricia Clarkson, visits them sometime later she deems Yelnikoff an unsuitable match for her daughter. She sets about trying to arrange an affair between her daughter and attractive younger British actor Randy Lee James, Henry Cavill. Her efforts are a success and the two do have an affair but Marietta ends up in an open relationship with Leo Brockman, Conleth Hill, while discovering that her ex-husband is gay. Yelnikoff also finds love in the most unexpected way. This should have been one of Allen's light inconsequential works, like the previous year's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), that featured great performances but not much in the way of plot or deeper meaning. Here the performances are all flat and feel overly calibrated like all of the actors had rehearsed their roles too much before appearing on screen. Clarkson is an actress who can turn on the charm when she needs to and she does here with such a weak screenplay but that familiar spark is never present. When even the most brilliant actress is unable to inject her role with any wit or freshness it is proof that you have written an unbearably bad screenplay. As for the plot it is paper thin and does not offer any opportunity to question the relationship boundaries we set for ourselves or the ethics behind beginning a relationship with a person who is essentially your student. Allen chooses to skim over all material that could add complications the film or make him confront some of the unfortunate character archetypes that pop up again and again in his films. There is also a blandness to the look of the film that isn't seen in most of Allen's films as he returns to New York City after spending so much time in Europe and his version of the city looks like that which would be found in an episode of "The King of Queens." Where is the creamy black and white of Manhattan (1979) or the cold pastels found in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)? Like almost everything else in the film little thought seems to have gone in to the appearance of the film as while the film had a $15 million budget it looked cheap and lacked character. Santo Loquasto, who usually brings such an eye for small details, to the interiors in Allen's productions produces rooms that feel fake and not like anybody has actually lived in them. Even the costumes are boring as there is a way to dress up women from a lower socioeconomic background without making them all look the same. Then there is the fact that Wood, an actress who I have never found to be good in anything that I have watched, is the ostensible leading lady of the film and emanates absolutely no warmth. David can get away with doing his usual shtick but Wood has nothing to fall back and on and her poor Southern accent and dewiness get irritating very quickly.

Enjoyment equal to watching Annie Hall

This is art imitating life. Whatever Works is a rather painfully obvious justification for Woody Allen's own real life pedophilia.

I usually like Larry David. But this time this was a garbage movie

#woodyallenretro Podcast Project Larry David is great as this grumpy old git and has hilarious dialogue throughout.. however the rest of the cast are not written to be as strong against him and we get a very one sided repetitive affair with a good cast and the sometimes usual digs by woody at the slower kind of southern folk but not much else.. sadly we can see why this one has a frowned upon reputation but this is mostly due to the lackluster writing for the supporting characters

Whatever Works is hilarious and infinitely wonderful, with some cerebral insight into the mathematics of relationships and hosts a great ensemble of fantastic performances.