A Rainy Day in New York

It is evident that Woody Allen is still in the game. He creates great dialogues that make sense. Moreover he is still able to get solid actors who are evidently showing themselves off in this movie. For example Elle Fanning who portrays a naive little girl here. It is all highly artsy and otherworldly. When you watch it for the first time it is quite overwhelming to the senses but after a few weeks you won’t even know you have watched it at all. (07/09/2020)

Woody Allen, a tireless cinematic storyteller with a wonderful sense of poetry, restraint, and comic detail, tries to present New York in all its beauty, attractiveness, nakedness, and depravity through a newly-in-love couple full of ideals. However, the young couple pays for their emotional immaturity. With this film, Allen proves once again that he is one of the masters of dialogue and multi-layered stories. (75%) (15/01/2022)

Not an over-produced self-indulgent coloring book, but instead the best Woody Allen film since Midnight in Paris. Timothée Chalamet's versatile talent fits the rainy streets of New York to a tee, and perhaps it is exactly that light-hearted posing in art galleries, parties, filmmakers, and reminiscing about decades-old art that is so accurately and pleasantly reflected on his melancholic face. I can't deny that the same jokes are made about the same topics for the umpteenth time, as are the relationship complications, but when the result is such a well-crafted introspective romantic comedy, I will gladly give it a go for the fifty-first time. (09/10/2019)

Woody Allen cannot be denied a unique style and, above all, a remarkable flair for natural dialogue, which he uses to demonstrate his characters' motives in a very sensitive and kind way. Although his latest film is set in the big-city backdrop of present-day New York, there is an ever-present kind of warm retro atmosphere that can be interpreted as one of Woody's other nostalgic sighs of relief, or as a benevolent hope. A hope that even in these overexposed times it pays to listen to the voice of one's heart, despite social pressures or expectations from one's immediate surroundings. In fact, A Rainy Day in New York is one of Allen's most optimistic films. While it takes place in a kind of bitterly melancholic haze, it contains no heated or emotionally draining conflicts. Just a pleasant film that caresses the soul and the heart. (23/08/2020)

Who would have thought that A Rainy Day in New York would be the Woody Allen movie that gets the ax? I don't want to comment on that case, but I'm glad that the film itself is still a classic Allen film from recent years, formally and stylistically fitting in among all those proven works that Allen has created since 2000. Everything is here - traditional sophisticated work with music, love for New York, beautifully chatty characters, intertwined relationships, and interesting life perspectives. One girl is blonde, the other a brunette. He is young and unspoiled and has a fascinating mother. Unexpected things happen behind the scenes. And in New York, it keeps raining and raining... Beautiful and intoxicating. As always. (21/12/2022)