Friday Movies: Cassandra's Dream
View from the lobby of the Kip’s Bay AMC Theatre.
Once upon a time, there was a simplicity about Woody Allen movies. People from the “coasts” got his jokes, and everybody else said “huh?” Those days are over. Ever since his wooing and wedding the third Mrs Allen, the audience has been further divided over the incest issue. (I said “issue”!) By this time, of course, the jokes in Woody Allen movies were few and far between.
Which may be why his latest film is such a triumph. There is not a funny line in the script, really, but, rather like Charlie Chaplin, Mr Allen shows that he can do funny without laugh lines.
