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Love and Death
: Who else besides Woody Allen could make death, war and adultery hilarious? Who else could combine slapstick with philosophical humor and actually pull it off? This movie is hysterical! It's much lesser known than "Annie Hall" or "Hannah and Her Sisters", but it's a truly funny, crazy and smart film.
Sonja: You were my one great love.
Boris: Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm dead.
Sonja: What's it like?
Boris: You know the chicken at Tresky's Restaurant? It's worse.
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There are those who think that Woody Allen is a genius. The only people smarter than those people are the ones who KNOW he is a genius.
But seriously folks, this film, Love and Death, is Woody Allen's favorite movie of his, and I must side with him on the matter. This film has everything that everyone could possibly love about Woody (the slapstick, the one-liners, the genius undertones) without any of the things that many people don't like about Woody (the heavy-handedness of something like "Interiors", say). This is his funniest movie, but it is also rife with serious analyzations about Life, Love and Death. Such things as "If Jesus was a carpenter, I wonder what he charged for bookshelves?" You just can't get any deeper than that.
The history here is the funniest ever portrayed, and the fickle hand of love and fate is evident with every brilliant brushstroke of Allen's gentle, humorous mind on the canvas he paints with his words and visuals. To see this film is to yearn to see it again.
Be good to yourself, and to all mankind. Buy this movie. Own it. Watch it 2 to 4 times per year. Then, when you meet Death in the afterlife, you can say, "Hey, I know you...!"
Woody's funniest and best, and one of the top five funniest films I have ever seen. Endless one liners. I must have seen this one fifty time, and it never gets old.
I have seen this movie so many times and laughed again and again every time. If I have to pick one comedy out of all - this would be the one. When something is this funny on so many levels, there is something in it for everyone....eventually.
Some say Bananas, most say Sleeper, but I am not the slightest bit hesitant to call Love and Death the best of Woody's "earlier, funnier" movies. Diane Keaton, as the flightly object of Woody's desire, is hilarious, esp. when she breaks into her philosophical flourishes. One of the best lines in the movie: Keaton's "No, no...not here". See the movie to find out what I mean. One of Woody's ten best.
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