A Londra le lucciole non passeggiano tranquille: archiviati gli agguati di Jack lo squartatore, devono sfuggire ai mortali approcci di colui che le prime pagine dei giornali hanno battezzato il “Killer dei Tarocchi”, per via di quelle carte da gioco lasciate accanto ai corpi delle vittime.
A investigare sul caso, Sondra Prensky, giovane and aggressive journalism student helped by an old magician, Splendini, stage name Sid Waterman. The tip about the identity of the serial in the person of Peter Lyman, among the leading figures of the aristocracy town, comes from reliable source that are absolutely out of the ordinary Joe Strombel, journalist and constantly on the piece of the past with great authority ... to a better life and escape the surveillance of Death to tell Sondra, during an experiment of dematerialization operated by Splendini, secretary of the speculation about his personal Lyman death by poisoning after starting to connect the crimes with certain attitudes of the employer .
Designing a masterpiece a year, or pretty much, is not accessible to all company directors: Woody Allen for a generous period of time has kept the flag, then, physiologically and 'human', the inspiration had take a breath, and one of the most influential personalities of world cinema has had to produce works that do not live up to legitimate expectations, although still more than decent. Now, a "historic" change of location - London instead of the usual New York - seems to have benefited the author's witty pen Manhattan and Crimes and Misdemeanors , after having set in the English metropolis the dramatic and cruel Match Point, architect a yellow rose that does not suffer particularly difficult to keep awake the interest with a vivid swirl of situations that blend well with the comic thriller, with touches of genuine suspense.
Scarlett Johansson, after the brilliant and sensual debut at the court in Allen's Match Point , confirms new muse of the American filmmaker, and is so delicious and functional in the shoes of the aspiring reporter on the trail of the scoop of the century, and hopelessly fell in love the same object, which distance themselves Woody seems almost to share the stage with her shoulder as a high prestige, and his Splendini, detective reluctantly, is tender and beautiful when appropriates feats hitherto unknown to him, as man of action, and pushes the tablet in his car to run in aid of what is now considered the daughter who has never been threatened by Lyman (Hugh Jackman winning a) on a private lake in boat man in a sequence that is a nod to Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux .
Director: Woody Allen. Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman.
Original title: Scoop. Genre: Comedy. Duration: 96 min. Production: Great Britain / USA, 2006.
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