Rifkin's Festival

I consider it one of the most mediocre works of the great Woody.

awful 🤢 ranks right down there with Wonder Wheel and Blue Jasmine. We need another like: Midnight in Paris or Cafe Society. This one was a real stinker. Boring 💤. Unlikeable characters (not the actors)

Allen at his most laid-back and he's really indulging his inner film nerd here which is fun. Wallace Shawn should be permanently assigned to be Allen's late period stand in.

Again woody disguised as Wallace. Can this director realize he doesn't have to be the star of every single movie he makes.

Bom filme. Particularmente gostei bastante, bem leve, com bastante referências de Woody.

Rifkin's Festival is a great movie for someone who loves cinema history, Bergman, and relationships. Woody Allen sprinkled the love of cinema on his classical relationship theme. The place where Christopher Waltz came out as "Death" in The Seventh Seal was fantastic. Other than that, it's a fun movie but no need to exaggerate.

A semi sweet love letter to cinema & life

I enjoyed the movie very much. The actors were a pleasure. The script was fun and interesting. The visual cinematic references to bergman, citizen Caine and others was great. The scene with death was really fun and deep. Loved the Life arc.

This is actually quite a beautiful film thanks to Vittorio Storaro. And it could have worked under one of these two conditions: 1- The character is played by someone that looks like a halfway house between Woody Allen and Marcello Mastroianni. 2- If it has to be Wallace Shawn, then the character should be a mix of Woody Allen and Rupert Murdoch. So Rifkin is a former billionaire media mogul, with a younger wife who has dragged him to San Sebastian film festival. That way the bald little 78 year old's attractiveness to women could be plausible.

Impossible to watch Wallace Shawn as the lead. Worst casting ever for a Woody Allen movie. Cringeworthy to see Shawn acting as if he were a 35 year old man with a libido. Impossible to see him as Gina Gershon's husband or a man lusting after a woman physician or a man who can't find it in him to write his first novel even though he's 78! His jeans riding lower than a rapper was also disconcerting. Many reviewers here found fault with the dream sequences as an homage to some of Europe's great directors. I enjoyed them for the most part. And that is the only place where Shawn works in this film: as a voice over.