Match Point
Short description
Match Point follows Chris Wilton, a former professional tennis player who has settled for a job as an instructor at an upscale London club. There he befriends Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man from a prominent family. Chris grows close to the Hewetts and becomes engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe, a match that promises him comfort and social standing. His position is complicated by his attraction to Nola Rice, an American actress who is involved with Tom. Chris finds himself pulled between the security the Hewett family offers and his feelings for Nola.
Woody Allen directed and wrote the film, the thirty-third of the forty-eight features he has directed. It came after Melinda and Melinda and before Scoop. Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Chris, with Scarlett Johansson as Nola, Emily Mortimer as Chloe, Matthew Goode as Tom, and Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton as Tom's parents. Letty Aronson, Nicky Kentish Barnes and Stephen Tenenbaum produced.
Made for about 15 million dollars, the film took roughly 85 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.6 out of 10 from around 238,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 from over 4,400. A critics' rating stands at 7.6 from 214 reviews, in line with the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Woody Allen's first film shot entirely in Britain from beginning to end.
- The painting on the wall depicting a girl with a red balloon, past whom Chris walks, was painted by Banksy – a graffiti artist from Bristol.
- The film features music by Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Carlos Gomes.
- At the beginning of the film, Chris Wilton is reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", and shortly after meeting Nola Rice – August Strindberg.
- The plot of the film echoes the plot of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy" (1925).
- Kate Winslet was initially cast in the role of Nola Rice, but she declined, citing a desire to spend more time with her family. Also, considering the film was shot in Britain, Woody Allen had to cast a certain percentage of the actors and artistic crew from England. He clearly met the required 'British' quota before Winslet was cast, and therefore, after her withdrawal from the project, Woody without hesitation entrusted the role of Nola to American actress Scarlett Johansson.
- Memorable concert recordings are featured several times in the film, including during the opening and closing credits. This is "Una furtiva lagrima" performed by Enrico Caruso from Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore".
- Woody Allen invited Toby Kebbell to the film without an audition, impressed by his performance in "Dead Man's Shoes".
- The musical being watched in the film is Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White".
- In one scene of the film, the characters go to a cinema to watch Walter Salles's "Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries" about the young Che Guevara.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
