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IRRATIONAL MAN is the latest movie written and directed by Woody Allen. It follows an aging philosophy professor named Abe (Joaquin Phoenix) trying to find a meaning and purpose for his life and a young college student, Jill (Emma Stone), as their lives cross paths, and they fall in love. Abe is an alcoholic nihilist, with no will to live who ...
Aug 14, 2015 · Woody Allen's lovely new movie, Irrational Man, tells the story of an alcoholic philosophy professor, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who arrives one summer to take up a teaching gig at an idyllic ...
With the recent Cate Blanchett-led tour de force that is Blue Jasmine and the delightful Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen has proven he still has the ability to produced well-crafted, engaging dramas. However, from the first few moments of his latest film, Irrational Man, there’s the sense this will shape up to be one of his lesser works.
Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre.
Soon after arriving to teach at a small town college, Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) gets involved with two women, Rita Richards (Parker Posey), a lonely professor who wants him to rescue her from her unhappy marriage; and Jill Pollard (Emma Stone), his best student, who becomes his closest friend. While Jill loves her boyfriend Roy (Jamie Blackley), she finds Abe's tortured, artistic personality ...
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Joaquin Phoenix. ... Abe Lucas. Emma Stone. ... Jill Pollard. Joe Stapleton.
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