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Mood:
- HumorousCynicalCleverStylizedWittyBiting
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Plot:
- Desire for FameCelebrity CultureAmbitionArtists and ShowbizLifestyleMedia SatireShowbizFilmmaking more...
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Genres:
- ComedyIndependentDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- New YorkUSAUrban
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Humor:
- Satire
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Style:
- Ensemble CastFilm in Film
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Look:
- B&W
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Flag:
- Profanity
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Celebrity, 1998
English
USA
Profile of Celebrity
Celebrity can be described as cynical, humorous, and biting. The plot revolves around the desire for fame, celebrity culture, and artists and showbiz. Its comic aspect comes from satire. Celebrity's main genres are comedy, independent, and drama. In terms of style, it stars an ensemble cast and is a film in a film. In approach, it is realistic. Celebrity is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. It is located in New York. It takes place in the 1990s. Visually, Celebrity is black and white. Note that it involves profanity.
Summary of Celebrity
Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with supermodels and actresses, living the so-called good life, he ends his 16-year marriage to Robin (the marvelous Judy Davis). The split nearly sends Robin off the deep end until she meets Joe Gardella (Joe Mantegna), a television producer who introduces her to a whole new world.
Allen shoots the film in black-and-white as if to take some of the gleam off the lives of these celebrities, many of whom are famous for just being famous. When Robin starts working for Joe, she is responsible for overseeing the talent--the kind of people who regularly appear on such shows as JERRY SPRINGER, looking for their moment in the spotlight. Even a television preacher has religious groupies who yearn for autographs. It is interesting to note that Allen wrote and directed CELEBRITY at a time when his own fame was reaching a crescendo because of his own personal problems, which became so much tabloid fodder; that is perhaps why he does not appear in the film, instead having Branagh speak the offbeat, cynical, funny lines that the Woodman himself usually delivers.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 25 September 1998 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
Cast and Crew
as Lee Simon
as Robin Simon
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Critics Reviews
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
The New Yorker
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- by: Anthony Lane
