Café Society 2016 123movies

Watch: Café Society 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1930’s Hollywood, the powerful agent, Phil Stern, is attending a party and receives a phone call from his sister living in New York. She asks for a job for her son and Phil’s nephew, Bobby, who decided to move to Hollywood. Three weeks later Phil schedules a meeting with Bobby and decides to help him. He asks his secretary Veronica “Vonnie” to hang around with Bobby, showing him the touristic places. Bobby immediately falls in love with Vonnie, but she tells that she has a boyfriend, a journalist that travels most of the time. However, Vonnie’s boyfriend is indeed a married man that is also in love with her and soon she has to make a choice between her two loves..
Plot: The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 77,712
	71% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2448 Popularity: 14.94 | TMDB

Reviews:

Beautiful but unsatisfying
Woody Allen often is an interesting and insightful directors, whose films regardless of how they come off overall look great, have great soundtracks and he often knows how to get strong performances out of actors, at his best his writing was a fine mix of the hilarious, the poignantly dramatic and the thought-provoking.

‘Café Society’ is not one of his best films. Allen’s glory days were in the late 60s through to the early 90s, with the 70s and 80s (which saw masterpieces like ‘Annie Hall’, ‘Crimes and Misdemeanours’ and ‘Manhattan’ for example) being particularly good decades. From mid-90s onwards he became hit and miss, with the odd gem like ‘Midnight in Paris’ and ‘Blue Jasmine’ but generally his glory days are long gone.

As far as his films from the 2010s decade go, ‘Midnight in Paris’ and ‘Blue Jasmine’ are vastly superior but ‘Café Society’ does fare better than ‘To Rome With Love’ and ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’. ‘Café Society’ is not a great film, but is not a poor one, generally Allen has done worse (almost all of them being in the last twenty years or so) but it really isn’t one of his better films.

Its best asset is the magnificent cinematography, every shot takes the breath away and complements the also spot-on and very handsomely produced 30s period detail perfectly. The soundtrack also is an ideal fit, giving a real sense of period as well as being a wonderful soundtrack on its own. There are shades of prime-Allen writing, there are some very funny moments, some touching ones and it does evoke thought afterwards, Allen’s themes done in an insightful way.

The story is simple but rarely dull, it is a long way from perfect as will be detailed later on in the review but it did maintain interest. It’s nicely directed by Allen. Performances vary. Blake Lively is positively luminous and Steve Carrell shows that he is adept at comedy and drama in a role that requires both extremes. Was very pleasantly surprised by Kristen Stewart, she can not do much for me but this is proof that with good material she can be good, the role could easily have been hardly one at all but Stewart does make the role more interesting than he deserved to be.

Jesse Eisenberg didn’t work for me, he just plays a younger Woody Allen alter ego and it just comes off as a bad impersonation without being either funny or charming, instead it’s annoying and the neuroses are overdone. Corey Stoll also feels very out of place, didn’t buy him for a minute as a mobster, the role didn’t suit him in the first place and it didn’t fit within the period.

On top of this, the script and story execution aren’t perfect. Mostly the script is very enjoyable but some jokes, especially the bad-taste and insensitive poking fun at Jews, do fall flat. Allen’s narration is irritating, overused and over-explanatory, more show and less tell please Allen, consequently giving ‘Café Society’ an overwritten feel. The story does suffer from too much crammed in and sketchily developed characters (making the central relationships not quite as convincing as they ought to have been), and while there was no problem with a more morose at the end the ending just felt too inconclusive and gave the sense that Allen was indecisive as to how to finish the film.

In conclusion, looks beautiful and has some enjoyable things but somewhat unsatisfying. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Nostalgic and elegant
The plot of the latest Allen’s movie is your basic love triangle, set in the 30s and with a small twist. Eisenberg and Stewart play the two young lovers, Bobby and Vonnie, who meet in Hollywood, where Bobby moved from New York.

Bobby’s uncle, Phil, is a big shot in the movie industry and Bobby is looking for a job. Vonnie is Phil’s secretary and part of her job is to make Bobby feel at home. After a few months, Bobby realizes is not happy on the West Coast, but he is in love with Vonnie.

Bobby proposes to Vonnie and asks her to move to New York with him. But she has a “secret” lover, who also proposes. Bobby moves back to New York alone, to work in his gangster’s brother night club. The denouement of their love story is melancholic.

I am not a fan of Stewart, but her part required some aloofness and mystery and she did a good job – whether because she is a good actress or because her range is limited to playing cold and detached I cannot say. Also, the movie offers some classic Allen’s punchlines, about life, its meaning or lack thereof. The voice-over did not disturbed me a bit and, as usual, the soundtrack is fabulous. Since I start to feel Allen’s nostalgia for the past, this movie fulfilled all my expectations.

If you like Allen’s movies, you will probably like this one, too. It is nostalgic but not sentimental and elegant in an old-fashioned way.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 30000000
Revenue 43763247
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Woody Allen
Writer Woody Allen
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell
Country United States
Awards 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.00 : 1
Camera Sony CineAlta F65, Cooke S4 Lenses, Sony CineAlta PMW-F55, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor PostWorks, New York (NY), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format AXSM, SRMemory
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), F55 RAW (4K) (source format) (some shots), F65 RAW (4K) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema