The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Genre: Fantasy / Comedy
Duration: 82 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello
IMDb score:
7,7 (57.029)
Releasedate: 1 March 1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo plot
"She's finally met the man of her dreams. He's not real but you can't have everything."
The time of the depression. Cecilia is a familiar face at the local cinema and the new film 'Purple Rose of Cairo' is so beautiful that she buys another ticket with her sister the next day. By the time she goes for the fifth time, one of the characters from the film sees her sitting in the room. This Tom Baxter, played by Gil Sheperd, steps off the canvas and goes into town with Cecilia. When Gil Sheperd hears about this, he fears that his character will damage his reputation and in the cinema the film cannot go on without Tom Baxter. In the meantime, the latter is having a great time with Cecilia; The problem is that she is married...
Actors and actresses
Cecilia
Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
Monk
Theater Manager
Cecilia's Sister
Henry
Jason
Rita
Larry
The Countess
Reviews & comments
Spetie
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- 38830 messages
- 7300 votes
A nice Woody Allen movie with an original story.
It also feels very refreshing to see an Allen without a neurotic protagonist in the form of Allen himself, or someone who could pass for him. No, Allen makes a film once, with which he wants to show that he has a lot of love for cinema itself. He brings that out in a beautiful way in this Purple Rose of Cairo.
Mia Farrow plays a good lead role, but can't match Jeff Daniels, who manages to fill in his double role almost perfectly. I actually liked the actors on the silver screen the most. Not only is it nice that they suddenly start talking and discussing with the people in the cinema, but the dialogues that are used are also funny. For example the woman, who says all the time that the role Daniels plays is just a minor part, which makes Daniels react annoyed every time. Those moments always brought a smile to my face.
The ending was also nice. I was already curious how it would end, but Allen knows how to do that very nicely, with the love for cinema again in a beautiful way.
3.5*
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Dievegge
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- 3094 messages
- 8012 votes
Woody Allen does what he does best: say something serious with humor and absurdity. Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is a waitress with a colorless existence. The Great Depression is on and she's married to a lazy bastard. Unable to cope with the cynicism of reality, she surrenders to escapism. In the dream world of the cinema, she finds the happy moments that she otherwise lacks. The dragon is poked with the magic of the silver screen, but also with the lack of magic in everyday life.
Jeff Daniels plays a great double role. As a hero with a pith helmet and simple ideals, he lacks any sense of reality; he is too good for this world. As an actor, he is a hypocritical and insufferable arrivist. Cecilia's sister is played by Stephanie Farrow, who are sisters in real life too.
The zeitgeist of the 1930s is well represented, with attention to the then leisure culture. For example, they enter a funhouse and there are advertising posters for comics (funnies). The Purple Rose of Cairo from 1935 has an illogical plot: it starts as an adventure on the Nile, but continues as a romance in New York. No one is looking for that purple rose anymore.
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