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American director Woody Allen attending a press conference for Café Society before the opening of the 69th Cannes film festival, 2016.
In the 1971 film Bananas, which served as his first directorial effort for United Artists, Woody Allen stars as a hapless, neurotic Manhattanite who becomes involved in a revolution within a fictional Central American country.1