
In 1930's Hollywood, the powerful agent, Phil Stern, is attending a party and receives a phone call from his sister living in New York. She asks for a job for her son and Phil's nephew, Bobby, who decided to move to Hollywood. Three weeks later Phil schedules a meeting with Bobby and decides to help him. He asks his secretary Veronica "Vonnie" to hang around with Bobby, showing him the touristic places. Bobby immediately falls in love with Vonnie, but she tells that she has a... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1930's Hollywood, the powerful agent, Phil Stern, is attending a party and receives a phone call from his sister living in New York. She asks for a job for her son and Phil's nephew, Bobby, who decided to move to Hollywood. Three weeks later Phil schedules a meeting with Bobby and decides to help him. He asks his secretary Veronica "Vonnie" to hang around with Bobby, showing him the touristic places. Bobby immediately falls in love with Vonnie, but she tells that she has a boyfriend, a journalist that travels most of the time. However, Vonnie's boyfriend is indeed a married man that is also in love with her and soon she has to make a choice between her two loves.
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| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseAllen returns here to one of his familiar preoccupations. That would be pondering with a mordant wit whether the universe has an order of some sort, or if it is all just chaos with nothing afterwards but oblivion. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedRomantic, bittersweet and funny as hell, Café Society turns Hollywood inside out, rooting through the superficial tinsel to find the real tinsel. You go away gobsmacked, beaming and happy to be both. |
| EscribiendoCineEmiliano BasileCafe Society is Allen's most personal film in years with the search for happiness through love as a main theme. [Full review in Spanish] |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonIn his best performance since “The Social Network,” Eisenberg is perfectly cast as the neurotic Bobby. But the film truly belongs to Stewart, who brings to Vonnie a haunting luminousness. |
| FilmsInReview.comVictoria AlexanderAllen's clever film questioning whether you should abandon love or go for it. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertStewart is irresistible here. Allen is a legendary director of women, and Stewart's performance is shockingly good, awards-caliber work. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesAs in many of Allen's period comedies, the dialogue sounds completely modern and evokes the era only in its endless name-dropping. |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.comCary DarlingThe film doesn't totally upend Allen's notion that L.A. is a seductively shallow place that has to resort to celebrating the ability to make a right turn on red to feel better about itself. In Café Society, it just looks so gorgeous while doing it. |
| Consequence of SoundNico Langa great deal of Café Society is shaggy and unfocused, it’s at least pleasing in its shapelessness. Café Society is not quite one of Woody Allen’s best, but it’s good enough to make you hope that he never leaves old Hollywood. The era suits him. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperCafé Society is a gorgeous and lightweight confection, a love letter to the Hollywood of the mid-1930s, as well as the New York of the same era. |