While We're Young

I was initially turned off by the Woody Allen look and feel of this film (though not nearly as turned off as I once was by Allen's Bergman-isms) but this is no cookie-cutter NYC angst and neuroses parade. I really fell for this foursome. The bond they form, despite (or because of) their disparate ages is utterly genuine and unforced. It's youth versus experience, age versus bravado, under-achieving, over-reaching....the story is a fable with a twist, and the director deftly swerves from the usual preachy pitfalls.