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Love and Death

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Love and Death

Alfred Lutter, Diane Keaton, Edmond Ardisson, Edward Ardisson, Frank Adu

Woody Allen's Love and Death is purportedly a satire of all things Russian, from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky novels to Sergei Eisenstein films, but it plays more like a spin on Bob Hope's Monsi...( read more  read more... )eur Beaucaire. Allen plays Boris, a 19th century Russian who falls in love with his distant (and married) cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton). Pressed into service with the Russian army during the war against Napoleon, Boris accidentally becomes a hero, then goes on to win a duel against a cuckolded husband (Harold Gould). He returns to Sonja, hoping to settle down on the Steppes somewhere, but Sonja has become fired up with patriotic fervor, insisting that Boris join a plot to kill Napoleon. Intellectual in-jokes abound in Love and Death, and other gags are basic Allen one-liners; for instance, after being congratulated for his lovemaking skills, Boris replies nonchalantly, I practice a lot when I'm alone. The pseudo-Russian ambience of Love and Death is comically enhanced by the Sergey Prokofiev compositions on the musical track.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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  • mjgildea
    December 2, 2009
    mjgildea
    Love and Death is pretty much your standard Woody Allen fare from the 70s. It borrows heavily from Ingmar Bergman and the Marx Brothers and at times is downright hysterical but once its over I'm not going to really give it a second thought. I would've given this a 3 1/2 star rati...( read more)ng if it wasn't for that last act, but since the only Russian novel I've ever read was Nabokov's Lolita most of the references were lost on me. The warm cockles line had me rolling almost as much as the scene where Sonja's first husband dies and the look on Diane Keaton's face during it. And speaking of which, Keaton was so goddamned cute. Worth it for her if nothing else even if her comic timing's not as good as Allen's...
  • kenstachnik
    April 30, 2009
    kenstachnik
    Possibly my new favorite Allen film. Filled with his signature blend of philoso-comedy, Allen pays tribute to Bergman and Dostoevsky in only the way he can. Full of amazing screwball dialog to boot.
  • mwilliams078
    January 4, 2009
    mwilliams078
    Love and Death, starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton is hillarious. What a great take on Russian grand films....soo funny.
  • EarthlyAlien
    January 20, 2008
    EarthlyAlien
    "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. There...( read more)fore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."

    Very likely to be Woody Allen's funniest film. The above quote by Diane Keaton is really just a small sample of the film's endless brilliance when it comes to dialogue. The concepts of love and death, which obviously have always intrigued and fascinated Allen (and anyone who can say they're human, really) are looked at in the most funny and unpretensious way possible. He basically stomps all over Philosophy, Duty, Honor - all the 'games' we play to pretend we're important. A hilariously brilliant film. Or the other way around.
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    October 4, 2007
    DragonEyeMorrison
    Early Allen flicks are still his best. This being the most polished of the bunch.
  • 21rclemente
    December 7, 2009
    21rclemente
    Lathargic Allen adaptation of death and closure. Of course Allen has the lead and drives predictably ominous points into the ground. Humorous in a sophisticated Brooks style.
  • Rikki89
    November 28, 2009
    Rikki89
    Very random but funny and different
  • ElCochran90
    September 18, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Woody and Diane back again in an elegant and hilarious human epic.

    84/100
  • melcandy5
    August 6, 2009
    melcandy5
    Typical Woody Allen movie, funny and clever. I can see this movie over and over again and never get tired.
  • electradelioncourt
    July 23, 2009
    electradelioncourt
    Sofismas, jogos de palavras, clichês, literatura russa, nihilismo, Woody Allen.... Excelente!
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