Woody Allen‘s A Rainy Day in New York won’t be playing the 2019 Venice Film Festival because it’s opening in Poland two days hence (7.26).
Subsequent bookings: Lithuania (8.2), Greece (8.22), the Netherlands (8.29), Turkey (8.30), France (9.18), Czech Republic (9.26), Italy (10.3), Spain (10.4) and Mexico (10.25). Of course, Germany still has no date …
Of course, no U.S. distributor has decided to touch the movie. Woody is still toxic to the Robespierre-like tyrannicals in this country. I do wonder if the movie will be leaked before it is, if ever, released in the States. Wait until Roman Polanski’s film screens at Venice, the sheer lunacy that will greet that - supposedly - great movie will be it’s own form of absurdism.