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Melinda and Melinda

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Original title

Melinda and Melinda

Year

2004

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Woody Allen

Screenwriter

Woody Allen

Cast

Music

Various

Cinematography

Vilmos Zsigmond

Producer

Fox Searchlight, Perdido Productions, Gravier Productions. Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Comedy-Drama

Synopsis

Melinda and Melinda combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. It takes place in Manhattan and chronicles a pair of crises that give great reign to the funny and serious talents of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chloë Sevigny and Wallace Shawn. All the usual Allen areas are explained - the fragility of love, marital infidelity, sophisticated romance, the inability to communicate. As a character in the movie puts it, `He`s despondent, he`s desperate, he`s suicidal. All the comic elements are in place.

Critics' reviews

"A movie about the symbiosis of the filmmaker and the audience (...) [Allen] shows us how he does it and how we do it. In its complexity and wit, this is one of his best recent films (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"With a grabber performance by Radha Mitchell as both Melindas, this dually plotted exercise is fun to see and even fun to ruminate about (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Mike Clark: USA Today
"Woody's back on solid ground with his first memorable pic of the new millennium"

Sheri Linden: The Hollywood Reporter
"A second-rate comedy and a third-rate drama, Melinda And Melinda gives viewers two unsatisfying movies in one"

Nathan Rabin: AV Club
"'Melinda and Melinda' is Woody Allen's first film since 'Deconstructing Harry' (1997) that's not dull, flawed, overly nostalgic or some deadly combination of all three."

Mick LaSalle: SFGATE
"It is a playful but strained and obtuse attempt to separate the comic and the tragic (...) Can no one persuade this remarkable director that we don't need a new film from him every year?"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"It has great performances, snappy one-liners and a likeably tricksy structure, all wrapped up in an affirmative antidote to life's daunting complexities (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Ian Freer: Empire

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