Stranger Than Fiction
bicoastal December 9th, 2006
Annie Hall has held the title for a long time. Of the course the dialog in STF isn’t as good, and the characters aren’t as deep, but the movie is visually stunning and the plot speaks to me much more now than Annie Hall does, even though both are about west and east coast.
I’m starting to realize just how universal this east-west trope is, but I’m still wondering whether there is something about our time and place that makes it even more central. The director, Marc Forster, says as much in the movie’s promo clips, but doesn’t say why.
I’m sure I’ll see the movie several times, so if you haven’t seen it yet we may see it together.
(Does anyone know the source of the text above Ana Pascal’s cafe, in the pic above? I googled it and found nothing — so it may not exist at all.)
