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The Purple Rose of Cario- 7/10
Im struggling to put my thoughts together on this. Its impressive how on the surface this is a very digestible film. Easy to follow and straight forward. A woman during the great depression who is broke and married to the worst kind of man uses film to escape her life and imagine happiness. One the day reality breaks and a character leaps from the screen and falls in love with her.
The movie is genuinely funny and jeff daniels, playing two characters, is a show stealer. But under all that is a much more interesting film and im trying to get a handle on it. Woody Allen has touched on the essence of not just the catharsis of film but in dreaming. Longing. And how film, perhaps more broadly; narrative as a whole, facilitates that.
This is definitely a picture I'll have to chew on a bit to really be able to put it into words. On the surface its very cute. Some of this bits are as funny as they were 30+ years ago. The romantic, and idyllic, scenes maintain the magic of the classic film. All while being underpinned with a really rich layer depth that seems to go as deep as youll care to look.
And at no point does it demand you look any deeper than the surface. A lesson modern film could really learn from.
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