Cafe Society
One of my favourite films from this year’s Cannes Film Festival was in fact its opener, Woody Allen‘s film for 2016 Cafe Society. Ahead of the film’s global release, a bunch of new clips have been added for your viewing pleasure.
Jesse Eisenberg leads the cast as Bobby, a native New Yorker who, after growing tired of his father’s jewelry trade in the Big Apple, heads to Hollywood in the 1930s to bag a job with his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell), one of Hollywood’s top agents. There, he meets the alluring Vonnie (Kristen Stewart), Phil’s very down-to-Earth office secretary, who seemingly shies away from the starry Hollywood scene. After finally getting a position with his uncle, essentially as his errand boy, Bobby starts to fall for Vonnie as she takes him under her wing, showing him the delights of a sun-soaked city which shines bright with glitz and glamour, though more so through the eyes of the attractive young woman.
Cafe Society will open on September 4th in the UK.
Watch the new clips below, and click on through to see our full review of the movie from Cannes.
Cafe Society clip – Veronica
Cafe Society clip – Phil Takes A Call
Cafe Society clip – Mexican Restaurant
Official Synopsis:
Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance CAFÉ SOCIETY follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Centering on events in the lives of Bobby’s colorful Bronx family, the film is a glittering valentine to the movie stars, socialites, playboys, debutantes, politicians, and gangsters who epitomized the excitement and glamour of the age.
Bobby’s family features his relentlessly bickering parents Rose (Jeannie Berlin) and Marty (Ken Stott), his casually amoral gangster brother Ben (Corey Stoll); his good-hearted teacher sister Evelyn (Sari Lennick), and her egghead husband Leonard (Stephen Kunken). For the hooligan Ben, there are no questions that can’t be answered with brute force, but the others are more likely to ponder deeper matters, like right and wrong, life and death, and the commercial viability of religion. Seeking more out of life, Bobby flees his father’s jewelry store for Hollywood, where he works for his high-powered agent uncle Phil (Steve Carell).
