Congrats to Melinda and Melinda for getting a great PTA.

I do when he always writes a sexual relationship with a much younger woman. Then he has a sexual relationship with his daughter. It doesn't matter whether she's adopted or not. She's still his daughter. I wouldn't be comfortable with Michael Jackson singing about young boys either.

Interesting ethical principle. So Polanski's The Pianist would be okay, but not his earler work Tess?

(...and oddly enough Allen doesn't appear in Melinda and Melinda, nor is it about having a relationship with a younger woman...)

Even without Allen's relationship with his daughter, I don't enjoy his movies. I haven't seen much of his earlier and more critically acclaimed work. I think he's overrated. His personal life just adds to my dislike of him.

It is very interesting to see a mature film director like Woody Allen take the cover off the inner workings of his art so we can see the gears turning inside...

Allen has moved through comedy, through drama, through art films, and is now creating meta-art films - art about the making of art. As always the dialogue is super clever and I enjoyed the dual storyline overlapping structure. The actors were solid - I wonder if Will Ferrrel will be Woody full-time from now on - he did a great job. Overall, not up there with Allen's best work -- the whole enterprise seemed to get bogged down by the end, but still definitely worth seeing...

3 out of 5.

It also has to do with the fact that It was the opening film at the biggest film Festival in Spain, San Sebastian. So the distributor wanted to take advantage of that gree publicity by releasing it shortly after the FF...

I saw the movie back then and found it incredible dissappointing. The premise looked interesting... and then not. Cause It is not the same story told as drama and comedy (that would be very interesting, if anybody wants to pick up that idea and do a movie, I´ll see it) but just the same actress playing two different characters (Both Melindas have not much to do with each other) with a similar starting point (just the idea of Melinda interrupting a dinner with some news) and that´s it... Different actors, different situations, different characters, different stories. One plot didn´t mirror the other at all... was what the point then?

Imagine that other movie, in which two stories have the same actors and the same twists... but one is told as a comedy and the other one as a drama. That I would have found interesting. I guess It all finally comes down to the fact that, on top of that, the comedy part didn´t make me laugh and the dramatic part didn´t move me or even interested me...