New York Stories | Mia Farrow, Mae Questel

New York Stories | Mia Farrow, Mae Questel | Scorcese yes. Coppola and Allen no.

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	New York Stories Mia Farrow, Mae Questel Touchstone Pictures, 2003 average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most talked about films of the year, NEW YORK STORIES features the collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese (THE COLOR OF MONEY), Francis Coppola (THE GODFATHER), and Woody Allen (HANNAH AND HER SISTERS).

sheldon's complaint

Sheldon Mills (Milstein) played by Woody Allen wants to please his mother and his lover at the same time. As if this weren't impossible to begin with, his lover played by Mia Farrow is a 'shiksa.' And with children to boot. The hilarious dilemna is finally resolved but not before a mysterious disappearance leading to true love brings us deep into the ethnic New York Jewish culture. These characters rival any to be found in Philip Roth's opus.

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Scorcese yes. Coppola and Allen no.

The Nick Nolte piece about a Soho artist's quixotic fixations with young girls is the best of the three films here. Nice Scorcese rock soundtrack, as usual. The Coppola bit is cartoon-like and not very interesting, though visually arresting. Woody's schtick about the over bearing Jewish mother is quite funny, but short and thin. The directors all try to outdo each other with fancy camera work. Great looks at late 80s NYC.

Three of them are far from our daily life, but ...

Life Lessons is a story of renowned painter, i.e. far from me.
Life without Zoe is a story of a daughter of super rich, i.e. far from me.
Oedipus Wrecks is a supernatural story that never happens in our daily life, i.e. far from me.

Yes, they're all far from my life, but Life Lessons depicts the loneliness, the egoism, and the great desire for a young woman that is common to, at least, one-tenth, I guess, of all men. Though not so famous as him, I can feel the big sympathy for such an ego-centric world of a man.

Life Without Zoe is just a simple and flat description of the life of a young girl. I guess Francis wanted to project his loving feeling to his daughter Sofia onto the film. But the description is super-superficial. It's a fairy tale that has nothing to do with me.

Oedipus Wrecks digs up the complex in depth feeling of man toward the mother. She annoys the grown up boy and the big boy want to leave her but cannot. Mother is a dominator in the mental world of man.

As a result, I would rate Life Lessons as five stars and Oedipus Wrecks as four stars, but just one star for Life Without Zoe, thus the average of 3.3333333.

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Fascinated by NYC

Fascinated by New York City, a reviewer is less than impressed with stories of self-indulgence, lust and egalitarianism too frequently associated with and substituted a nature of New Yorkers and NYC.

Scarcely provided landscapes of the Big Apple are great as usual when moviemakers - city lovers shared their feeling with a world.

It is not Rent but some fun anyway.

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