synopsis:

Sandy Bates is a celebrated movie director who is the chief attraction of a weekend film seminar at a seaside resort in New Jersey. His fans are an assorted mix of unappealing folk who besiege him with requests for autographs, endorsements, attendance at benefits, readings of their scripts, and explanations of his movies. Bates also has personal problems to attend to: the end of an affair with a neurotic actress, the appearance of his French mistress at the resort claiming that she has just left her husband for him, and his own romantic attraction to a violinist who is present at the seminar.

The filmmaker comes off as a slightly jaded humanist who can't accept either the adulation heaped upon him by his fans or the love offered by the three women he's involved with. In a dream, Bates envisions a creature from outer space advising him: "You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes." But how can he joke around when the world is plunging toward entropy?Bates tries to remain upbeat, but the intrusive nature of his celebrity status has him struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy in his private life, which is as much in a crossroads as his career.

about this movie:'Stardust Memories', starring Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault and Jessica Harper, is a compelling look into the narcissistic mind of a comedic genius, now plagued by the constant need to put the light comedies that made him famous behind him and do more artistically significant work.it is a somber meditation on the celebrity syndrome and on the uneasy role of an artist who is ill-equipped to deal with the movie business as football game/brothel. In this film, Woody Allen kicks himself around and wonders whether there is any way to maintain integrity in a realm where scoring points and selling one's flesh seems to be the modus operandi.