Woody Allen is a man who has carefully protected his public persona for years. He probably wasn't going to be very candid with the filmmaker Robert Wade. Still after hours of listening to the fawning interviews from his co-workers, friends and actors you would think there were be a little insight into this guy.
The film contradicts itself. There is a lot of carrying on about how he doesn't direct actors but the one lengthy clip of him on the set of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger shows him very carefully directing the actors. The actors also blather on about how Woody allows them to change the dialog of his films, another suspect point. You only have to watch three or four Allen films to recognize the cadence of his dialog clearly nobody changes anything.
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The film doesn't even get into his very messy personal life. This is a guy who has a thing for young girls. Allen had a long running relationship with a teenager named Stacey Neilken when he was in his 40's but apparently nobody wanted to interview her. The film very gingerly treads on his relationship with Mia Farrow and fails to mention the court ruling which called his behavior with Soon Yi Previn "grossly inappropriate."
We will probably have to wait until the guy croaks to get an honest biography about Woody Allen. However that could be a while sense his parents lived into their late 90's.
195 minutes.
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