Review of All That Jazz

I found it good when I saw for the first time, VERY good when I saw again 10 years later. More ten years, and it was great. It is natural: the first time, I was 35 years old. I was successively feeling different lectures contained in the film. Technically, it is an excellent musical movie (the different pieces are perfect in rhythm, light, style!). It is very good as a human story (relationships between persons, the subtle nest of expressions in faces and eyes; the different planes of personal and professional relationships; a very good description of show business)... and, finally, the mature point of view. The man gambling with Death. The monologue in the film he's editing refers to an existing (real) theory about grief when faced to death. And he runs exactly the same five steps until the final, glorious apotheosis (recently, I was looking the film for the n-th time. My son was with me. Just after the final show, he said: "wow, I'd like to die like that!"). OK, it helped to be almost autobiographic. But what we see is an outstanding synthesis of visual and musical quality, human feeling and calm reflexion about life and death...