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Woody Allen’s Café Soci­ety gets a delec­table first trailer

22 Apr 2016

Words by David Ehrlich

Watch Jesse Eisen­berg and Kris­ten Stew­art fall in love in the director’s Cannes-bound peri­od comedy.

You nev­er quite know what you’re gonna get with Woody Allen. The pro­lif­ic vet­er­an film­mak­er has a knack of pulling a gem out of the bag when you least expect it, and that’s the ear­ly vibe we’re get­ting from his new one, Café Soci­ety.

Set in 1930s Hol­ly­wood, the film con­cerns the nephew of a high-pro­file pro­duc­er who moves to Los Ange­les in the hope of mak­ing his name in the film indus­try. Jesse Eisen­berg plays the young man in ques­tion, who quick­ly falls in with the glam­orous café soci­ety scene where he meets (and falls in love with) Kris­ten Stewart’s stu­dio assis­tant, Von­nie. It looks like a typ­i­cal­ly breezy stroll through the Gold­en Age of Hol­ly­wood, with Allen bring­ing his trade­mark acer­bic wit to the par­ty (“this whole town runs on ego,” you’ve nev­er heard of me, I’m a writer”). Watch the trail­er above and let us know what you think @LWLies

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