There's little amusement to be had in an Allen movie as of late, and there's none of it in this one, which tells
the tale of a love triangle on Coney Island in the 1950s.
Not exact matches
This morose
tale of a beautiful Polish immigrant caught in a sick
love triangle with her pimp (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wacko magician brother (Jeremy Renner) is unrelentingly bleak, pretentious, and looked like it was shot through a glass full
of piss.
The story begins to struggle as Valjean takes a backseat to accommodate the rise
of subplots that involve
love triangles and a French uprising that takes all the focus for a good chunk
of time but lacks the emotion pull
of Valjean's
tale.
The picture could only have been salvaged by Dark Blue World focusing on the macrocosm
of the plight
of Czech pilots for which its
tale of a doomed
love triangle is the microcosm.