Farrell and McGregor try their best to infuse their shallow characters with potent dramatic spunk, but it's basically Allen's typical neurotic hand-wringing nerds with tacked-on British accents.
Cassandra's Dream (2008)
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson, Sally Hawkins, Hayley Atwell
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley
Composer: Philip Glass
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 5, 2010
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Reviews
Acaba se boicotando graças ao desfecho simplista e artificial.
While Allen's Match Point was an interesting switching of gears ... his new mantle of Patricia Highsmith-esque crime chronicler is wearing thin as well.
There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy.
This is Colin Farrell's best work in years and proof that Woody Allen is an old dog, and these are new tricks.
Cassandra's Dream is not a top-notch Woody Allen film, but this dark drama is a worthy addition to the director's career-long search for meaning in a world where randomness and cruelty often reign.
For those who remember [his Allen's classic films] Cassandra's Dream seems like the work of an imposter.
Like Match Point, [it] seems very sharp and focused; for better or worse, it lacks the tangents that both lightened up and diffused the tone in Scoop. That also means that there's not a moment of humor in it.
Cassandra's Dream is second-rate Allen, but it's still compelling thanks to its magnetic co-stars.
It's not completely awful. But it lacks the necessary suspense and the only thing that really holds it together are the performances.
After making his best and smoothest drama (Match Point) in England, Woody Allen returns there for one of his most clueless and awkward.
Cassandra's Dream lacks energy and spark. Monotonous and simplistic, it is definitely not worthy of Woody Allen.
A clutch of disturbingly weak performances stumbling over uncharacteristically terrible dialogue.
It's alive with energy and ideas, not to mention good old-fashioned suspense and tragedy.
Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski.
Woody Allen has a history of hits and misses in his directing career. His latest effort falls somewhere in between, although the film is actually a lot closer to his better work.
Farrell and McGregor deliver remarkably nuanced performances in and through their mundane one-dimensionality, taking average Joes and give them average strengths and weaknesses.
When it comes to wrapping up the story, Allen can't seem to make up his mind.
There’s still some snap in Woody’s writing, and still some sharpness to his black humor.
Nearing the end of his career, Woody Allen has become a hit-or-miss director with considerably more misses.
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