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...this desperation suggests a certain pathos, but little can match the pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
...Allen, 49, drop hints about his forthcoming movies, perhaps having learned that skillfully shunning publicity actually produces more of it. But the writer-director last week was willing to talk, a little, about his next film, Hannah and Her Sisters, in which he stars with his longtime love, Mia Farrow, 40, as Hannah and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as the sisters. The plot is still Allen's deep secret, but he admits to having a continuing fascination with Farrows. "For years, Mia's family has been lucky for me," he said. "One of her sisters (Tisa) was in Manhattan...
...film that should be an assignment for VES 194. "Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
...purest form, Gil embodies it in the hilariously impure form of actor's ego. His conversation consists mostly of quotations from his favorite notices and cheerful agreement with Cecilia's compliments. Daniels thus has two voices in the film's romantic trio, but he hardly drowns out Farrow's lovely performance. She provides the film's moral pivot. Its poignancy, truth and stature as a miniature masterpiece arise out of the hard choice she must finally make between perfect fantasy and imperfect reality...
Allen is already at work on his next movie, a "serious comedy" called Hannah and Her Sisters, starring himself and Farrow, his companion of four years. Having made 13 films in the past 15 years, he likes being busy. His directorial model is not the legendary raging egomaniac but the quiet craftsman who prides himself on his productivity. "I don't want to get into that commercial film cycle that says that every time a film comes out it has to be hailed as an event," he says. "All the foreign filmmakers I loved, including Bergman, just turned out their...