Cannes Review: Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man' Isn't His Best Effort

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Reporting from the Cannes Film Festival. Two recurring themes in Woody Allen’s filmography are murder and dangerous love affairs. His latest is Irrational Man and it continues this trend with mixed results. But mostly it will leave you with thoughts of revisiting Allen’s better efforts like Crimes and Misdemeanors, Match Point and Cassandra’s Dream. His latest film (which just premiered at Cannes) takes place in a concentrated college town where everyone seems to know each other and privacy is nonexistent. Insecure philosophy professor Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix) has just been hired at the fictional Braylin College and it’s treated like an atom bomb of gossip by the faculty and student body. ›››

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