Stardust Memories (1980)

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Depressed

The movie stars off with a ending in one of Sandy Bates ( Allen) movies. His latest movie is not as his early comedic work, and the movie executives are trying to make him change it. He finds no reason to change it sense he sees the world full of suffering and decaying matter.

Woody Allen is almoust the same guy in every movie, but this time he wasn't afraid to show himself more vulnerable and, at times, even afraid of his popularity.

Three women

1. Dorrie

The only thing that keeps him together is his girlfriend Dorrie (played by Charlotte Rampling). A very psychotic women who, by regards of the own film, was the

Dorrie

most interesting woman in the world for 2 days a month and the other 28 was a complete meltdown.

He is forced by his crew and friends to go to a Film Festival in his honor. He of course have very strong feeling against going, but with the ending of his movie and certain problems with the IRS, he feels is best to get away from it all and to go the festival. He is a brilliant panelist, and answers all of the audience's questions with perspicacity and humor.

2. Daisy

Daisy

The film festival is riddled with very devoted fans to his work. There in the middle of the madness, he encounters a young Columbia profesor of screenplay writing, named Jack (palyed by John Rothman) and his girlfriend Daisy (played by Jessica Harper) a young violin player, with whom Sandy is left infatuated.

3. Isobel

Then, incomes Isobel ( Marie-Christine Barrault). A french woman

Isobel

who, we can understand, was having a affair with Sandy, and had just left his husband. Sandy doesn't quit know how to respond to this since he knows that although Isobel loves him, and he loves her, she has two children already.

Because of the nonlinear narrative of the movie various scenes of Sandy and his leading ladies are shown, and he seems to be seriously interested in all of them.

Conlusion

Spoiler:

Later because of the way of how the events are presented we found out that the movie that we've been seeing is really the movie which ending was in dispute in the first scene.