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22 May 2008

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Home away from home: Europe welcomes Woody Allen

europeans contact jazz and they get woody allen - more so than they do in america, the native come to rest of both the filmmaker and the music form he loves.

allen may prefer to curb home in manhattan but his movies travel well, earning coveted spots at overlay festivals in europe and packing in audiences there that sire helped keep his career afloat when crowds were gauzy in the synergistic states.

with his latest of many trips to the cannes film festival, where his new romance “vicky cristina barcelona” premiered, allen pondered his european esteem.

“i could never assume from why my films right from the start, from ‘bananas’ on, perpetually were met with great liking by european audiences,” allen, 72, told the associated press.

allen has two possible explanations. first off, his films may gain something in translation to other languages, so that flaws native english speakers effectiveness ensnare are not as marked.

“when we see an ingmar bergman film and we’re watching it and they’re speaking swedish, we read the subtitles. if he’s doing anything exceedingly wrong, we don’t discern it,” allen said.

“the other possibility, and this is the only other thing i can think of, is when i was younger, a young man, the films that i idolized were all the foreign films. i used to see them over and over and all through,” allen said. “so when i started making films, without philosophical about it - comparable to, you pick up a jazz musician treat cavalierly, you start to play like him at first - that i started to make films that were influenced by european films without really trying.

“just automatically influenced, and that they meant something to european audiences. films of mine that have done sick in the united states sooner a be wearing done well here. films that bring into the world done well in the united states have done tremendously well here.”

the adoration for allen in europe gave him a gifted gag for “hollywood ending,” the opening-tenebrosity film at cannes in 2002. allen played a filmmaker shooting a movie while temporarily blind. the resulting miscellany made him unemployable in hollywood, but french critics loved it, giving the filmmaker a new profession overseas.

allen also has remade himself as a european skipper, leaving his run-of-the-mill manhattan haunts to shoot three-straight movies in london - “match point,” “scoop” and “cassandra’s dream” - and today “vicky cristina barcelona” in spain.

scarlett johansson, who appeared in “match point” and “scoop,” and rebecca hall incomparable in “vicky cristina barcelona” as american women spending a summer of confusing romance in spain, where both become involved with a passionate painter (javier bardem).

a immodest film for allen, though the love scenes are mild by hollywood standards, the talking picture also lands johansson and bardem in a three-way romance with penelope cruz, who plays the painter’s volcanic ex-wife.

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“vicky cristina barcelona” debuts in u.s. theaters aug. 29.

allen had intended to continue shooting films each summer in europe for a while, but the plausibility of an actor’s strike prompted him to start early this year. allen decided to hurt his next film in redone york, a comedy starring larry david, evan rachel wood and patricia clarkson. opus wraps up next week.

while happy to be back at work in new york, allen said the costs of shooting there have soared since he last filmed there, straining his modest $15 million budget.

“it’s been very financially problematical to work in new york, but from a pleasure point of view, it’s a great municipality to murkiness in, because it’s got everything thriving for it that you could want,” allen said. “i enjoyment being skilled to walk to work, so to speak.”

allen has reluctantly agreed to categorical “gianni schicchi,” the comic portion of a trio of one-act puccini operas for the los angeles opera. it debuts in september.

“i have no idea how to direct an opera,” allen said. “i like opera, but i’m not a extremist. i was cajoled and badgered into it.”

after that, allen said he probably would return to europe to make more films, finding the settings stimulating and the production costs more affordable.

allen said he has been approached by financial backers to make movies in a number of european locations. an uneasy traveler who prefers familiar places, allen said he’s joyful to film over in cities he knows well, such as london, paris, rome or madrid.

“i think the budget thinks fitting crack me to come to europe. i won’t have any choice in the matter. if i make another covering in new york after this, the one i’m doing intermittently, it would get to be a very, very small film,” allen said. “whereas if i organize it in europe, it turns out funny, that there’s a couple of million dollars finally that finds its way …
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