First Cannes Reviews: Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man'

It's probably not going to take long for Woody Allen's "Irrational Man," which is about a in appropriate sexual relationship between an older man and a younger woman that leads to a violent transgression of conventional morality, to get caught up in the controversy around Allen's own past. But at Cannes, critics are more concerned with placing it in the context of Allen's work than his life, generally finding it a worthy but lesser followup to "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "Match Point." "Irrational Man," which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a teacher who gets involved with student Emma Stone, as well as carrying on with more age-appropriate colleague...

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