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Rainy day in New York

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  • Genre: Comedy

It is true that even a stopped clock gives the exact time twice a day, but it is no less irrefutable that one of them usually catches us sleeping. It would be said that much of Woody Allen's latest work works with the perfection of a clock stopped at a time prior to the time itself. Anguish is already a way of walking and pessimism, the equivalent of an elegant but old-fashioned hairstyle. Rainy day in New York is the best example of existential anachronism, let's call it that, in which the Brooklyn teacher lives. His characters this time are young and handsome lost in the Big Apple, but they behave like the old ugly old men. They play poker, listen to jazz and, most curiously, never look at the mobile. They also speak fluently incompatible with the usual use of emoticons. And yet, just stay awake. At the right time, Allen returns to give the exact time.

The film tells the weekend in Manhattan of a posh boy and his apprentice journalist girlfriend. He wants to squander part of the fortune that inhabits him in 48 hours not so much full of pleasure and debauchery as, conversely, completely empty. She only dreams of doing her first interview with the fashion man (a film director). In between, two more: the sister of an old girlfriend and the obviously rich mother, both of the first, who are there. With these tools, Allen returns to his city after so many years to contemplate it a little from the outside. That is the exercise: return to yourself but in another way; Repeat each of your gestures, but in the rain. That is to say, stop for the umpteenth time at the same perfectly Allenian moment. At the exact time.

A romantic comedy so perfectly out of its time, so elegant in its impressionist minimalism, so unreal if you want, that excites

The premiere of the movie abducted by Amazon on account of the bad drool of the furious horde must be greeted, therefore, as it is: a romantic comedy so perfectly out of time, so elegant in its impressionist minimalism, so unreal If you want, it excites. It costs, yes, date it. It has been held for a year and more seems to be a film from the 30s. From Lubitsch, says Trueba. But that, far from playing against it, makes it a unique and irrefutable piece. There are Timothée Chalamet (him), Elle Fanning (she) and Selena Gomez (the sister of the ex-girlfriend), but nothing comparable to the fleeting and final monologue of veteran Cherry Jones (the rich mother). The latter is the one that appears at the exact time. Prodigious.

There will be those who do not recognize in any of what the characters do a single gram of authenticity. It has already been said, they represent the new generations in the same way that Don Quixote embodies world wisdom. That, really, is a way of doing it. Of course, the scruffyness in a staging that simply follows, or retransmits, the action is already a hallmark of the house. It is not that his way of rolling is classic simply is. That is not little. Let's say that the degree of self-absorption, of formal neglect, is such that it is almost a way of being in the world. Allen has long neither given nor asked for explanations. You have to believe him. And we believe him.

It was Cortázar who said that with the gift of a watch there was also "the need to wind it up every day so that it remains a clock". With him goes, the obsession of attending at the exact time in the showcases of the jewelers and even the fear of losing it. Then and after winding it up, the Argentine asked us to tie it quickly to the wrist and let it beat in freedom. "Imitate it yearning," he recommended. With rainy day in New York, not much is needed. Just wait at the right time. And then yes, Allen appears and gives the exact time and in full freedom. .

+ Nothing like knowing that Woody Allen has returned to his annual appointment. It is enough that one thing, only one, makes sense.-It is rare, but the photograph of Vittorio Storaro, always so close to honey, disorients.

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