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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

1982

Woody Allen

Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty ...

6.6

8,692

Comedy Early 20th century. Three couples meet for a weekend in the country: an inventor who has created a “spirit-catching ball” and his wife, who has sex problems; a rationalist and pompous philosophy lecturer and his fiancée, much younger than him; and a doctor, a compulsive womanizer, with his latest conquest. The idyllic setting is the perfect backdrop for mixed feelings between the different members of the group.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Not Woody Allen at his best, this period piece has some clever writing but is not completely convincing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"Gordon Willis's photography is exquisite, however, and one suspects Bergman would not be displeased (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There doesn't seem to be a driving idea behind it, a confident tone to give us the sure notion that Allen knows what he wants to do here (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"A pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn't go for more."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"His best invention remains his own screen persona, and the Bergman borrowings here provide it with a warm, romantic and old-fashioned setting."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	Whatever Mr. Allen is doing in constructing this pretty, slight, gently entertaining movie, he isn't doing the thing he does best (...) picturesque but uncertain"	NEU
United States	TV Guide	"Never has Allen more obviously fallen down on the job (...) [He] is prevented by the period setting from exercising his wit on contemporary sexual mores, which have always provided one of his richest comic sources (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's funny and sweet in spots, though the light moments get lost in the haze of imitation and ambitiousness."	NEU

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