Sandy’s ending has the folks from the rich people’s train end up at a trash heap, but the studio – citing what audiences want at the moment - has them end up with a heavenly jazz band.
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By this point, Allen had figured out how to carve his own path, but he brilliantly and bitterly skewers the process through an arthouse film within the film. “Stardust” also takes a crack at studio interference. Stars: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper Sandy can multitask – he signs autographs while discussing the future of the relationship – but we perceive his stress simply because this would be stressful to anyone. A reunion scene between Sandy and Isobel (Marie-Christine Barrault) is interrupted multiple times. “Stardust Memories” is about other things, too, but its point – intentional, I think – is that it’s hard to even think straight when so many demands are being made of you, from charity appearances to autographs of a fan’s left breast. Director Allen wisely has cinematographer Gordon Willis either get in Sandy’s face as he’s being mobbed, or in the faces of the admirers, with Sandy as the camera’s POV. But in “Stardust Memories” (1980), Sandy Bates – a thinly veiled (OK, not veiled at all) stand-in for Woody Allen, who also plays the role – is so bombarded by fans, many of a ridiculous nature, that I feel for him. “Just deal with it” is my knee-jerk response to celebrities who complain about the price of fame.
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