Everyone Says I Love You
1996 Directed by Woody Allen
Synopsis
Holden and Skylar are in love with each other. Skylar lives with a large and extended family on Manhattan. Her parents, Bob and Steffi have been married to each other for many years. Joe, a friend of theirs, who has a daughter, DJ, with Steffi. After yet another relationship, Joe is alone again. He flees to Venice, and meets Von, and makes her believe that he is the man of her dreams. However, their happiness is fake all the way, and she returns to her previous husband. Steffi spends her time with charity work, and manages to break up Skylars and Holdens relation when she introduces Skylar to a released jailbird, Charles Ferry.
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Too much shit is going on for me to care for anything but for the end-dance-sequence.
Woody Allen is funny, though. But come on, he's always funny.
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Woody Allen goes a bit musical in this lightweight comedy where people start singing mid-sentence and no-one bats an eye. Narratively its a little all over the place with too many plot threads and not much resolution to many of them but its Allen having fun with the standout sequences being set-pieces, not something you can say of Allen often, highlighted by a wonderful dance number by Allen and Goldie Hawn towards the end.
The ensemble cast all do well though some can certainly sing better than others, and personally I could have done with more of Edward Norton's likeable but wet young lawyer, and while it's fair to say it's never really as insightful or compelling as the man's best, this is a film which knows what it is and embraces it.
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Easily one of the strangest films in Woody Allen's canon, this imperfect but highly likeable musical is always entertaining and occasionally even sublime.
Focusing on the teenage DJ (a wonderful Natasha Lyonne, who at this point seemed to be headed for stardom), who wryly narrates the film as she observes the romantic foibles of her extended, wealthy family, the fairly standard (though enjoyable) plot isn't what makes the film so interesting. What's so interesting (and even experimental) about EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU is that Allen has cast a musical almost entirely with actors who can't sing. That could have been a disaster, but instead, when actors like Drew Barrymore, Edward Norton, or Julia Roberts sing in their thin, delicate,…
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How strange a thing, to see Woody Allen make a musical. And yet how unsurprising, all the same. This is the man, after all, who excelled equally in all avenues of comedy before slipping with some success into drama, who took a detour through film noir and several through thriller territory, who adapts with equal success to seemingly every format he attempts. He makes a tragicomic wonder of Everyone Says I Love You, which is somehow all the more appealing for its failings. It's imperfect, often directly problematic, but it's also unassumingly earnest and refreshingly ambitious. I enjoyed it very much, and what has progressed to become its most iconic scene absolutely deserves that honour. That scene, perhaps more than anything else in the entirety of Allen's oeuvre, is movie magic, pure and simple.
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Um filme simples, delicioso de assistir, e com o selo Woody Allen de qualidade.
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Every year I end up watching this film at Christmas - and only ever at Christmas. It's the only time that a film as sloppy, sentimental and, well, not-very-good as this is forgivable, and every year I love it as much as the last. How many other films end with a Groucho Marx song and dance number in French? None, that's how many.
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I could barely deal with the fact that this is a musical. Thank goodness it still has the typical Woody Allen flair around it. The Grandpa song was the only thing that was just too much to handle.
Apart from that it was an enjoyable movie, but definately not his best.By the way, what was up with all the heads that were falling off the screen?
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Unusual, self-aware musical comedy has fun musical numbers (especially the ones set in a hospital and a jewelry store), but the barest thread of a plot (as well as a few disposable subplots). In the end, it’s not much more than a pleasant diversion. The concept – a musical populated by “real” people who can’t really sing and dance – is charming, but director Woody Allen could have done a lot more with it. Edward Norton has goofy allure, Alan Alda does the best job singing, and Julia Roberts the worst.
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A charming musical comedy that feels fresh and original because the musical numbers have an unpolished on-the-fly feel that is not typical of the genre.
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What Woody Allen does here is unquestionably unusual. Well, there certainly are some recurrent elements you expect from a Woody Allen movie, such as voice over from a character that travels through every narrative core (quirky DJ performs this function here) or the tireless persistence in which characters played by the director always transpire confusion and vulnerability - and that is exactly what make them extremely human - in what concerns relationships.
At the musical moments - or the small amount of them, I don’t think that sing & dance features were overused at all - Woody (I really don’t mind calling him just “Woody” simply because I consider him one of the best friends I could ever had, although he…
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On my quest to watch every film written and directed by Woody Allen I've come across a common theme. His films that aren't up to snuff share a common flaw...they lack identity. In Everybody Says I Love You it was the family dynamic that hooked me not the dragging two character tangent in Paris. So while the sporadic plot is in many ways a flaw I does keep the film fresh. It's like when you first move to middle school and had a different teacher each period. So if you hated one teacher it was only an hour or so you had to deal with them unlike middle school where you were stuck. This film was like that...the parts I didn't like didn't last long enough to sully the whole thing for me.
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A romantic and sweet film. Woody Allen's attempt at a musical did not go wasted, as Everyone Says I Love You is a passionate and whimsical affair.
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How strange a thing, to see Woody Allen make a musical. And yet how unsurprising, all the same. This is the man, after all, who excelled equally in all avenues of comedy before slipping with some success into drama, who took a detour through film noir and several through thriller territory, who adapts with equal success to seemingly every format he attempts. He makes a tragicomic wonder of Everyone Says I Love You, which is somehow all the more appealing for its failings. It's imperfect, often directly problematic, but it's also unassumingly earnest and refreshingly ambitious. I enjoyed it very much, and what has progressed to become its most iconic scene absolutely deserves that honour. That scene, perhaps more than anything else in the entirety of Allen's oeuvre, is movie magic, pure and simple.
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This little treasure is a collection of show tunes nicely nestled into the usual Woody Allen narrative about rich folks, love and shrinks. Instead of coming to any big conclusions, Allen scraps succinct conjunction between reality and philosophy and truly connects with the inner pulse of his tone.
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Please, someone burn all the tapes of this movie, tnks.