A Rainy Day in New York #2

In July 2020, I watched A Rainy Day in New York again at Movix Kameari. I did it because it had really impressed me the last time and made me desire to do it once more. The movie was written and directed by Woody Allen. Then it was released in 2020 in Japan but it has not been opened in the United States due to some reasons. 

It describes the events which occurs to the young beautiful couple of Gatsby and Ashleigh mainly on a rainy day in New York. 

Elle Fanning as Ashleigh was really charming the same as the last time. Although Fanning as a princess in Maleficent had a dignified feel and was not bad, yet Fanning as the college girl looked dazzling especially when she was laughing and frolicking. The girl was occasionally superficial, but all the same I felt that it was okay because she was just 21 years old. The beautiful actress played well as the ordinary girl who was from a rich family, anyway. 

Timothee Chalamet as Gatsby also was really handsome like the last time and he matched Fanning in terms of good appearance. Basically, I do not care about how cool young men are because I am a straight middle-aged man, however, I could not help but admit that Chalamet looked beautiful, like Takuya Kimura especially in his twenties and thirties and the present Ryo Yoshizawa. If the French and American actor's looking had not been super cool, I would have dismissed him for a handsome actor, though. He is not only good-looking but very good at acting, moreover, he is too perfect to cause my jealousy for him and he is a totally good young actor. 

Selena Gomez was also charming as a little sister of Gatsby's ex-girlfriend, but all the same the movie was under the charm of Fanning and Chalamet, which was partly created by the superb direction and script of Allen. 

By the way, I thought of Jude Law in it as Joaquin Phoenix but I did not care about it when I realized that the actor was Law because the presence of the two young actors was overwhelming Law and the other actors. 

Toward the ending the young couple are riding in a carriage. The scene reminded me of the one in the movie Manhattan, where Issac played by Allen and a seventeen-year-old girl are riding in it. When the lead is Allen in the movies directed by himself, the role tends to be quite popular by women, which seems to be unnatural because of his diminutive appearance. Chalamet looked to be proper as the main character in the film, though.