Rifkin’s Festival (2020) | How Woke Is It?

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Rifkin’s Festival2020

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What We Think

“Rifkin’s Festival” is refreshingly non-woke, opting for old-school neurotic comedy rather than fashionable cultural commentary. Woody Allen’s style remains rooted in character and satire, not virtue signaling.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

“Rifkin's Festival” focuses on a neurotic film lover wrestling with marital disillusionment in Spain and satirizes art-house cinema. There’s little emphasis on identity politics, virtue signaling, or forced representation. The characters are crafted for their personalities, neuroses, and relationships, not for checking cultural boxes.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film upholds traditional themes of marriage, fidelity, and artistic nostalgia. There’s no attempt to bash religion, masculinity, or classic values. Instead, it pokes fun at pretension in the film industry, steering clear of preachy modern revisionism.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Characters embody a range of foibles. There’s no self-congratulatory parade of current ideological assumptions, nor are dissenting views demonized. The film’s focus remains personal and artistic rather than political or ideological.

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