A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
This wonderful, frothy treat from Woody Allen follows three couples frolicking in the countryside at the turn of the century. At a beautiful farmhouse in upstate New York, wealthy Andrew (Allen) passes his summer days tinkering as a hack inventor and attempting to make love with his frigid wife, Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Then .. Read more
| Starring | Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jose Ferrer, Julie Hagerty |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Genres | Comedy |
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
This wonderful, frothy treat from Woody Allen follows three couples frolicking in the countryside at the turn of the century. At a beautiful farmhouse in upstate New York, wealthy Andrew (Allen) passes his summer days tinkering as a hack inventor and attempting to make love with his frigid wife, Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Then Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a self-possessed scholar, and his future wife, the highly sexed Ariel (Mia Farrow), come for a visit. The second couple added to the mix is Maxwell (Tony Roberts), a doctor, and his current girlfriend, Dulcy (Julie Hagerty), a nurse who advises Adrian on her sex life. It turns out that Andrew once had an innocent romance with Ariel, but he's one of the very few men she has met and not slept with. Now Andrew is very much interested in Ariel again--and she in him. And thus begins this whimsical farce of lust, love, and longing among friends.
| Starring | Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jose Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 19 Aug 2002 Production year: 1982 |
| Format | DVD |
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Woody Allen pays homage to Ingmar Bergman in this re-vamp of Smiles of a Summer Night, in which six characters gather at a turn-of-the-century farmhouse in search of sexual satisfaction. José Ferrer is the pedantic scholar engaged to Mia Farrow; Allen is the stockbroker trying to bed his frigid wife, Mary Steenburgen. The jokes come rather thin and slow for a Woody movie, with the result that Allen's oddball inventions (which include a flying bicycle) are at least as interesting as the oddball people. Gordon Willis's photography is exquisite, however, and one suspects Bergman would not be displeased.
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Monogamous at heart, Allen has ended his brief affair with Fellini (Stardust Memories out of 8) and gone back to his... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Funny enough
A gentle comedy about 3 couples staying in a house over a few days. No particular magic moments, but enjoyable nonetheless.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Funny enough
A gentle comedy about 3 couples staying in a house over a few days. No particular magic moments, but enjoyable nonetheless.
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- 21 May 2008
He's made (at least!) a film a year since 1970, a record that's all the more remarkable when you realise that he's written and directed all of them, and starred in most. They include some of the best-loved and most quoted comedies in cinema history: Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters take some beating, and that's to ignore "the early, funny ones" (Sleeper, Love and Death, Bananas); the lovely miniatures from what I consider his finest period (the early 80s gave us Broadway Danny... Read more
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