Cassandra's Dream

49

The Weinstein Company (108 minutes)
and Woody Allen
Ewan McGregor , Colin Farrell , Tom Wilkinson , Sally Hawkins , and Hayley Atwell

Rating: Not Rated

Summary: Set in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful woman he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled in a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results. (Weinstein Company)

Kyle Smith
New York Post:
(88) It's a pulp story pinned to the screen with an ice pick of conscience in a manner that would have pleased Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman.

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly:
(75) Allen's latest, Cassandra's Dream, is one of his debonair ''small'' entertainments, the closest that he has come to doing a tidy, no-frills, down-and-dirty genre thriller.

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle:
(75) In thematic terms, Cassandra's Dream could be looked at as a rebuttal to "Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe:
(75) The movie is actually a softer treatment of the similar sibling anguish in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Allen isn't enough of a great dark artist to pull off a full-scale tragedy the way Lumet does.

Richard Schickel
Time:
(70) It is a talkative film, rather earnest in its tonalities, not at all a deft, witty or well-paced. On the other hand, it is, for Allen, a comparatively rare excursion into lower-class life.

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times:
(70) Woody Allen’s latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesn’t just stop making comedies once and for all.

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