My 150 Favorite Movies - #134
Love and Death (1975)
There is a line in Stardust Memories in which a group of aliens tells Woody Allen's character that they like his movies, especially, "the early, funny ones." Well, Love and Death is the last of those early, funny ones, and arguably the funniest movie that Allen has ever made. The story takes place in Russia during the Napoleonic era, and concerns a plot to assassinate the Emperor. The plot is a secondary device, as the film lavishly parodies both the classic Russian literature of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, as well as the cinema of Ingmar Bergman and Sergei Eisenstein. My favorite visual joke in a movie is here.
There is a line in Stardust Memories in which a group of aliens tells Woody Allen's character that they like his movies, especially, "the early, funny ones." Well, Love and Death is the last of those early, funny ones, and arguably the funniest movie that Allen has ever made. The story takes place in Russia during the Napoleonic era, and concerns a plot to assassinate the Emperor. The plot is a secondary device, as the film lavishly parodies both the classic Russian literature of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, as well as the cinema of Ingmar Bergman and Sergei Eisenstein. My favorite visual joke in a movie is here.
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