Anything Else (Woody Allen, 2003)

 Anything Else (Woody Allen, 2003)







They were seeing The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel,1962)
explained per Wikipedia: Though Buñuel never states what the symbolism represents, leaving it to the viewer's understanding, one critic, Roger Ebert, wrote a lengthy interpretation of the film's symbolism, which includes the following paragraph: "The dinner guests represent the ruling class in Franco's Spain. Having set a banquet table for themselves by defeating the workers in the Spanish Civil War, they sit down for a feast, only to find it never ends. They're trapped in their own bourgeois cul-de-sac. Increasingly resentful at being shut off from the world outside, they grow mean and restless; their worst tendencies are revealed.
WA also references this Buñuel film in Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)



Say something! You're time is up. 


Movie reference parallels that the relationship feels trapped, unable to move forward
positively.

Annie Hall is really about heartbreak. Here that realization never happens.  Much stronger feeling of getting stuck in something bad. 




Projections: Woody Allen - The Cinema of Neurosis. Seminar from the Freud Museum of London. Presenter: Mary Wild. Session 1 - Love, pt. 1Friday 30 April 2021





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