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Synopsis

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards. Turned off by the lavish praise showered on Philippe's film, which he considers banal, Mort becomes preoccupied with the cinema classics he once taught as a professor, by masters like Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut, and Buñuel. Mort's relentlessly dismissive opinions of Philippe, Sue's current focus as a professional and someone she greatly admires, strains their already frayed relationship.

Cast

  • Wallace Shawn
  • Michael Garvey
  • Damian Chapa
  • Bobby Slayton
  • Gina Gershon
  • Louis Garrel
  • Stephanie Figueira
  • Luz Cipriota
  • Godeliv Van den Brandt
  • Manu Fullola

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great treatse on our world and human love, taken up a notch by the great wallace shaw

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Metacritic

67
Feb 7, 2022

Rifkin’s Festival is a romantic farce, with ideas that long-time fans will recognize from a range of other Allen films, but with one difference. The movie ends on a surprisingly sweet note.

Karen Gordon
Original-Cin
50
Jan 27, 2022

Entering the “likely a money-laundering scheme for Spanish businessmen” part of his European travelogue era, Woody Allen turns uniquely narrow-minded and bitter with Rifkin’s Festival, which takes aim at the film culture that’s both alienated and abandoned him this past decade. Exciting though it is to see the proverbial gloves come off, the hands, sadly, don’t get very dirty.

Metacritic review by Ethan Vestby
Ethan Vestby
The Film Stage
50
Jan 25, 2022

Like a dream you’ve half forgotten by the time you get to the breakfast table, it’s neither good enough to make much of an impression or bad enough to completely forget.

Metacritic review by Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post