[Quick Summary: A unhappily divorced man falls for his best friend's mistress. Woody Allen type chaos ensues.]
This story is about a guy who falls for his friend's mistress against his better judgment, & is left with egg on his face when the mistress goes back to the friend.
The script is approx. 90% dialogue & it's ok there's very little narrative.
Why? The emotional conflict is so primal, so full of contradiction, so ripe for heart break again & again that it totally engrosses you.
MARY (chuckling): Oh well, how about Vincent Van Gogh (pronouncing it "Goch")...or Ingar Bergman?
IKE: (overlapping) Van Goch? (Aside, to Tracy) Did she say "Van GOch"?
MARY (to Yale): How about Ingmar Bergman?
IKE (overlapping, shaking his head): Van Goch.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: Above all, keep the emotion raw.
Manhattan (1979)
by Woody Allen
Four Films of Woody Allen (book published 1982)
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