Synopsis
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
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Cast
- Jesse EisenbergBobby Dorfman
- Kristen StewartVonnie Sybil
- Steve CarellPhil Stern
- Blake LivelyVeronica Hayes
- Parker PoseyRad Taylor
- Corey StollBen Dorfman
- Jeannie BerlinRose Dorfman
- Ken StottMarty Dorfman
- Anna CampCandy
- Paul SchneiderSteve
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
Café Society isn’t Vonnie’s story, but it’s Stewart’s film. - 80
Screen Daily
A bittersweet comedy of manners that sees Allen pushing the boat out stylistically and in narrative ambition, even as he treads familiar ground. - 75
IndieWire
Cafe Society works about as a well as a decent-but-not-great Allen movie can. - 75
The Playlist
What little shock of the new the film can provide us with comes from the honeyed cinematography by Vittorio Storaro which uses silhouettes, graphic compositions and glowing closeups in an often genuinely breathtaking manner. But it also comes from the performances. - 72
TheWrap
It’s a perfectly enjoyable, perfectly forgettable nostalgi-comedy that will be taken to task for not being anything more. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Wispy and familiar in its themes and humorous strokes, Café Society benefits from an exceptionally adept cast led by Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Steve Carell, as well as from a luminous glow that emphasizes both the old Hollywood nostalgia and the story’s basis in dreams and artifice. - 60
The Guardian
Woody Allen’s Café Society is a sweet, sad, insubstantial jeu d’ésprit, watchable, charming and beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro – yet always freighted by a pedantic nostalgia for the 1930s golden age in both Hollywood and New York, nostalgia which the title itself rather coercively announces. - 60
Variety
The movie, watchable as it is, never quite overcomes the sense that it’s a lavish diagram working hard to come off as a real movie.
