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Stardust Memories

1980

Woody Allen

Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault ...

6.8

5,441

Drama. Comedy A movie director specializing in comedies, Sandy Bates attends a retrospective on his work in a coastal hotel. While everyone around him wants to meet him and shower praise upon him, Bates withdraws into himself to take a look at the most important moments in his love life and find a meaning for his part in a world he finds increasingly strange and inhospitable.

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"COMEDY, according to a character in Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories' is a weapon. And this scathing, audacious new film finds Mr. Allen using it full-force for the first time."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Woody's diatribe against the harsher sides of his industry is not counted amongst his greats and for good reason but there's much here to like for the devotee (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's the first Woody Allen film in which impotence has become the situation rather than the problem. This is a movie about a guy who has given up (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Allen confronts the ultimate conundrum of the personal artist: all the stuff that gets in the way of the work becomes part of the work, then becomes essential to it.	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Peachment Time Out	"Having stolen Fellini's '8/½' structure, Allen stands in danger (...) His 'early funny' films (...) were good exactly because they contained sufficient sadness and pain to make the comic triumph well-earned.	NEG
United States	TV Guide	"[It] has an underlying angry tone that Allen fails to blend successfully with the comedy (...) [It] remains a disappointing outing, despite its many laughs and inside jokes (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A drab, crowded, ugly film by Woody Allen. Meant to be a confessional in the style of 8 ½, this 1980 feature is more or less a steady stream of bile"	NEG

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