Woody Allen writes, directs, and stars in this complex philosophical exploration of the wages of sin through the interweaving tales of seemingly unrelated characters. Allen plays a struggling documentary filmmaker attempting to chronicle the life and ideas of an enigmatic philosophy professor. Martin Landau stars as the foil to the downtrodden Allen, a highly successful ophthalmologist doing his best to dam his own covert indiscretions at no cost to his carefully constructed image.
The film is equal parts drama and comedy, envisioning the absurdly complicated and often reckless lives of society’s higher class citizens through the provocative direction and writing of Allen. Rife with meaning, Allen constructs a film that manages to navigate seemingly haphazard plot elements with a heartfelt esotericism upheld by his own black humor and well-developed characters. Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, and Jerry Orbach complement an already thoughtful film with precise acting.
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