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Bananas

1971

Woody Allen

Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Natividad Abascal ...

6.5

14,843

Comedy Fielding Mellish, an urbanite who works as a tester of the most absurd inventions, starts dating Nancy, an activist who collects signatures against the dictatorship reigning in a country called San Marcos. Being dumped by Nancy on her realising that he isn’t precisely the man of her life, Mellish decides to head for the country in question and join the revolution to impress his loved one and win her back.

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Allen's view of the world is fraught with everything except pathos, and it's a view I happen to find very funny."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Rapid-fire gags and some inspired one-liners qualify this as an early classic from Allen (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"A wonderfully incoherent series of one-liners (...) The revolutionary party's new policies are an absurd comment on the corruption of power"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Although some of the humor falls flat in this early Allen comedy, his satire of revolutions and revolutionaries is perpetually topical; subsequent events in Central America have only enhanced the film's appeal (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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