![]() ![]() Yet, because there is little or no sunshine, this glow comes from the indoor lighting. The movie is decorated in those downbeat, autumnal yellows, ochres and browns that are such an important part of Allen’s palette, with people wearing a lot of sweaters and corduroys, and it is shot by Vittorio Storaro who, as so often while working with Allen, goes in for that golden-tan glow. Meanwhile, Gatsby, despite his youth, gets to flirt with a younger woman – the younger sister of an ex-girlfriend, Chan ( Selena Gomez). Weirdly, they even have a joke about Gigi (although Chalamet is not required to sing the lyrics to “Thank heaven for little girls”). Photograph: Jessica Miglio/Signature EntertainmentĪshleigh and Gatsby agree to go together, but the rain inspires romantic adventures Ashleigh winds up in farcical situations with Pollard, with his screenwriter, Ted Davidoff ( Jude Law), and with a certain sleazy womanising star called Francisco Vega (Diego Luna). Gatsby is dating Ashleigh (Fanning), a peppy, preppy gal with sweaters and short skirts from an earlier age, who as a student journalist has been given the chance to go to Manhattan and interview tortured movie director Roland Pollard ( Liev Schreiber) for the college paper.įlirting … Selena Gomez and Timothée Chalamet. That can only be a wry, self-aware joke – and yet, despite the jumping all over cultural references that happens everywhere else in the screenplay, no character here goes anywhere near that outrageous moniker. ![]() A pretty niche gag for Gen Z, surely?Ĭhalamet is fey and winsome in the role of a wealthy young undergraduate at an upstate liberal arts college, who has the entirely preposterous name of Gatsby Welles. At one point, a guy in his early 20s tells another character that someone’s girlfriend “resembles Yasser Arafat”. Actually, what it resembles is that particular time in the 1970s when the 1930s were popular. The setting is the present day, but with plenty of weird jazz-age totems and anachronisms. The setting is New York, which now looks like luxury-tourist city-break destinations, such as Rome or Paris, depicted in his other films. ![]()
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