A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Country: US
Technical: col 88m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis:
A staunchly rationalist professor of advanced years who is about to be married, passes the weekend at the country house of his cousin and her inventor husband, of whom his fiancée is an old flame. Also in attendance are the inventor's doctor friend, an incorrigible lothario, and his free-loving nurse.
Review:
Answering the criticisms of introspection and obscurity that attended his Felliniesque Stardust Memories, Allen produced this variation on his other idol, Bergman's, Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a gorgeously lit, if slight, rumination on the unrepeatability of missed opportunities and the unpredictability of sexual attraction, with a harking back to the slapstick world of Sleeper in Andrew's attempts at man-powered flight, some Mendelssohn-inflected contemplation of the natural world and a proto-cinematic invocation of the fairy one.
Country: US
Technical: col 88m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis:
A staunchly rationalist professor of advanced years who is about to be married, passes the weekend at the country house of his cousin and her inventor husband, of whom his fiancée is an old flame. Also in attendance are the inventor's doctor friend, an incorrigible lothario, and his free-loving nurse.
Review:
Answering the criticisms of introspection and obscurity that attended his Felliniesque Stardust Memories, Allen produced this variation on his other idol, Bergman's, Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a gorgeously lit, if slight, rumination on the unrepeatability of missed opportunities and the unpredictability of sexual attraction, with a harking back to the slapstick world of Sleeper in Andrew's attempts at man-powered flight, some Mendelssohn-inflected contemplation of the natural world and a proto-cinematic invocation of the fairy one.
Country: US
Technical: col 88m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis:
A staunchly rationalist professor of advanced years who is about to be married, passes the weekend at the country house of his cousin and her inventor husband, of whom his fiancée is an old flame. Also in attendance are the inventor's doctor friend, an incorrigible lothario, and his free-loving nurse.
Review:
Answering the criticisms of introspection and obscurity that attended his Felliniesque Stardust Memories, Allen produced this variation on his other idol, Bergman's, Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a gorgeously lit, if slight, rumination on the unrepeatability of missed opportunities and the unpredictability of sexual attraction, with a harking back to the slapstick world of Sleeper in Andrew's attempts at man-powered flight, some Mendelssohn-inflected contemplation of the natural world and a proto-cinematic invocation of the fairy one.