Woody Allen (80) – I feel youthful! – VG

CANNES (AP) Woody Allen is 80, thinner and more hunched than before. But his annual film, “Cafe Society” is more than big enough to open this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

– I feel youthful; I can not believe I’m 80, I actually think it is absolutely amazing! Says film world’s neurotic, comedian and romantic; large and small, he is now over 50 films. “Cafe Society” is a nostalgic throwback to Hollywood in the 30s, when the glamor factor was himmelhøy, human exploitation boundless and romanticism a trademark.

Triangle

It is about a kind of advanced triangle story that spans several years, where Kristen Stewart is senterpunket as the innocent small-town girl who goes from being the secretary to the mistress of the older talent mogul (Steve Carell) to boyfriend to Mogul nephew, played by Jesse Eisenberg. The whole commute between Hollywood and New York.

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If this year’s film shows no signs of weakening of the director , he admits himself that, yes, age can probably be labeled. Slightly. Here and there. Absolutely easy is it, for example, to hear the questions at the press conference:

– Here I sit with hearing aids. Over the hearing aid I have this headset. And yet I can not hear the question!

But otherwise he attempts both to eat healthy and exercise a bit:

Gener

– There are bound to happen morning, I wake up and have had a stroke and may end up in a wheelchair. So, people point at me and say: “Look, there is the man who once was Woody Allen.” But until that happens, I’ll keep making my movies – at least as long as people are stupid enough to pay to see them! And it can last a while yet: My father was over 100, my mother almost 100. So maybe the genes also are on my side. But as we know the never.

Allen will not play even in the “Cafe Society”. But he’s with, however, as the film’s narration:

– This film would make the structure as a novel, a family saga over time and with many implicated and various events. In such films, it is the author’s voice that decides it all. And I was the author. Therefore.

Distribute

The author admits smooth that many years ago he even played the role, which is now entrusted Jesse Eisenberg. It was a big advantage for the film, says the author:

– I’m a comedian, my bet would have been one-dimensional. Jesse is an actor, and therefore able to provide the role much more content, more depth and many more facets.

– One of the lines in the movie says “life is a comedy, written by a sadistic comedy writer”?

– Yes, it is not so, ? Here is a film that tries to entertain with a story about infidelity, betrayal, gangsters, exploitation, romantic dreamers. Such being the good father material; we be entertained. However, it is the extremely sad undertones here. There we let us entertain of them also create many tragedies, disappointments and wounds of those affected. So what I try, is to construct a comic perspective of deeply serious tragedies and pure evil.

Woody Allen opens thus festival tonight; it is actually the third time he does it. But he will be out of competition – as always:

– The reason is simple: I do not believe in competing in artistic branches. Competition is grand when we talk about sports. But judging art think I simply can not, says Woody Allen.