With a skillful and, as always, airy, macabre comedy, Woody Allen made his 50th and probably last film. End of a life’s work that also leaves shadows behind.
So first of all, you can report on one, and especially on this, Woody Allen’s 50th film, without talking in detail about the other. What is said to have happened over 30 years ago in an attic with Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan, then seven years old, and since then the “sexual abuse” allegation against him has stood like a big black rock in his life story. The alleged crime was tried in court, there was no evidence, but all the more contradictions, distortions and a very tragic disintegration of what used to be a very funny family. And no one to blame. And maybe not even an act. But no one knows that except Allen, 88, and Dylan, now 38.