Café Society

It's a very Woody Allen-ish movie. The visuals are beautiful and stunning. There is a lot of gorgeous dresses, outfits and scenery. The setting and the time the film is set in is lovely. Aaand that's about the only thing I like. I'm not going to rate this one, because I feel that a lot of things I don't like about this film doesn't actually make it a bad film. I just don't like the characters. I find them impossible to relate as my tolerance to all things like cheating is very minimal and I don't really feel empathy for the characters. In my eyes they are all completely responsible for their own misery. The men are dreadful - pushy and they din't really seem considerate of women's feelings. They don't wait, They don't take no for an answer and what's even worse is that all the other characters encourage this sort of behavior. Maybe it fit the era, maybe it doesn't, but I don't like it.

Kristen Stewart's Vonnie has some potential to being a likable relatable character, but Kristen Stewart's "one expression fits all" approach makes it very hard to get her character. Especially because she portrays a character who is written in a way that you should be able to read loads of stuff just from her expression. But you can't. Does she genuinely likes this guy who says she wants to be with her and says so on the very day she was dumped? And when Vonnie says she never wants to love again the man she considers her friend only disregards her feelings by saying:"You just need time." It would make sense of Vonnie to feel unsure and not like him, but you can't really tell by her expression. You have to go by the narration.

Aaand that brings me to the narration. The famous film critique channel cinemasins always sins narration. Often unfairly I think. In this case through, the narration was annoying. It felt like there wasn't enough screen time to have the whole movie done and therefore what was happening needed to be told to the viewer as quickly as possible. Or maybe he was just too lazy to film more than a montage.

Jessie's character was okay. He has more versatile approach than Kristen, but I felt like maybe his character development could have been shown more clearly. Or maybe I just imagined there was meant to be any?