"Everyone Says I Love You" is a cool, cool movie, the only funny Woody Allen film in recent memory. And, on a personal level, it mostly takes place on the Upper East Side, right where I lived when the movie was made, complete with girls in uniforms (played by Gaby Hoffman and, as those who arrived here via Google will want to know, a young Natalie Portman) sitting in front of an all-girls school on Madison in the 90s, squealing about boys.* It's fun seeing all this playfully mocked. Strange, though, to see it all now, in a building at Chicago. Kind of like seeing a shockingly well-made home movie years later on the big screen.
*When the audience first meets him, the boy that Portman and Hoffman's characters can't get enough of walks down 92nd Street on a school day and is not wearing a uniform. Where, then, does he go to school? Dalton? Hunter? He had the look of a Hunter kid in the first scene, but then the more you find out about him, the more ambiguous it becomes.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Girls in uniform
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Thursday, February 17, 2005
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