1982 romantic comedy
Rating: 14/20
Plot: An inventor and his wife, who are having problems in the bedroom, invite two other couples to their country home on the eve of a wedding. Conflicts and sexual hijinks ensue.
The older I get, the more problem I have with women being attracted to Woody Allen in his movies.
Like a lot of Woody Allen movies, this is more clever than it is hilarious. Riffs on Bergman and Renoir give him a palette to explore sophisticated or farcical romantic comedy touches, and a weird mysticism or maybe magical realism only slightly derails. It's good to see Julie Hagerty, especially in this role as sort of a mousy whore. I thought Allen was going somewhere with the contrast between scientific thought and that mysticism, but he didn't seem to have much of an interest in that.
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