Hollywood Ending - 5

This Woody Allen film deals with the psychological aspect of fear in connection with blindness. In some ways it is the same as all of his other films, the affairs and catchy one-liners. But the plot is actually more coherent as a story than some of his others. The idea is that a struggling director gets a big picture deal from his ex-wife's studio. But then goes psychosomatically blind, makes film that only the French like, and recovers his sight to find life more beautiful than before. The film also deals with the father-son relationship of the main character who has grown apart from his son, but finds that they have more in common than they think. It is funny and a less despairing film than is his usual. And like the title implies, he gets back together with his true love and moves to Paris. The story goes that he wrote the idea for this story on a matchbook and found it years later and decided to make the film.