Woody Allen’s Long-Delayed ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ is Painfully Unfunny (Review)
Perhaps I'm a glutton for punishment.
Despite it all, I've never been able to cut Woody Allen out of my cinephile life. Many have and I completely respect that, but I've had an entire shelf of his films in my movie collection for decades. He's made some of my all-time favorites and, even though there are incredibly diminishing returns, I still watch everything he releases.
'Rifkin's Festival,' his 49th feature film, might be the straw that broke the camel's back.
I had not heard encouraging things, but when it recently snuck onto VOD with zero fanfare, I knew I had to rent it. After all, it stars Louis Garrel, one of my favorite actors from France. I was going to watch it just for him, if nothing else. And, so I clicked the rental button and sat down for what is at least a mer...