The Great Gatsby from Woody Allen ???

Movie Review: Cafe Society **1/2

"Life is a comedy," says Bobby, "but it is written by a sadistic comedy writer.¨ Or is it all about youthful illusions? I take it

In search of an exciting career, young Bobby Dorfman leaves New York in search of the glitz and glamour of the Hollywood of the 1930s. After getting a job with his uncle, Bobby falls in love with Vonnie, a charming secretary who is his boss's lover. They get involved, but she chooses her boss. Conforming to friendship, but with a broken heart, Bobby returns to the Bronx and starts working in a nightclub. Everything fits together when he finds romance with a beautiful socialite.

Bobby and Vonnie

Woody Allen himself does the off-screen narration with his sub-par epigrams.  The gangster scenes in New York look like those in his other film, Bullets Over Broadway, from 1994. Kisten stwert looks beautiful and sexy. The character Bobby is unconvincing if compared to the success he acquires in the unfolding of the filman has a specific talent or artistic vocation, which makes the thread very unlikely to sustain itself. The Jewish family is cliche but ends up with a sentenced electric chair converted to Christianity.

The Socialite

 Allen's soundtrack is always great jazz and at the beginning of the film I thought I was watching The Great Gatsby. I expected more from the movie, the beginning really looks promising, Maybe it's true that Woody Allen always makes the same movie, but I still carry the illusion that he will give us an extra toast. it wasn't here this time.  It's the consolation for what comes instead of love and what survives love.

Bobby, the main male character was neither built nor explained : the film does not offer specific details about his work or his ideas