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Summary: Don't Miss It!
Review: This movie has it all. Allen traces the emotional ups and downs of his charcters with his usual wit and perception of human relations. The acting is superb, particularly by Judy Davis and Sidney Pollak as a middle aged married couple. Crackling dialogue and jarring camera work make for a completely satisfying cinematic experience. Allen plays his usual neurotic character, this time an english professor who gets lured into an enfatuation with one of his female students, Juliette Lewis. Liam Neeson and Mia Farrow are also terrific--Farrow's last role in an Allen film.
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Summary: ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FILMS!
Review: To me the 90's were Allen's best decade!(There are probably many who might disagree) Look at the quality of the films he has made! The only exception to this in my opinion is "Alice". "Bullets Over Broadway","Mighty Aphrodite","Everyone Says I Love You",and ending the decade with "Sweet and Lowdown",all great movies! But this one is in a different category. Because all the films I've listed above are comedies. But this one is more "darker",a drama. And I award Allen on this GREAT piece of film making. This is one of Allen's best directing efforts. The movie is filled with great acting from Allen himself to Judy Davis(Both recieved Academy Award nomination for their work). If your the kind of person who only likes Allen's early films,this isn't for you! If you like Allen's more serious efforts,why have you waited so long to see this film! A MUST!
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Summary: Wonderful, well acted drama
Review: When watching Woody Allen films you have to understand that his movies piece together like a beautiful mosiac. You see reaccuring themes and characters and conflicts. Allen's films are all amazing, though some of them I care for more than other's, they are all, in a sense, classic.In "Husbands And Wives" we in get into the lives of two couples in a docu-drama type of way. You feel like you're really watching these things unfold, like you're really part of the action. Afer many years together Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis are calling it quits, splitting up. They tell Woody Allen and his wife Mia Farrow, and they go nuts. "How could this be happening?" After their breakup Allen and Farrow start examining their own marriage and see that they also strive more in life. As Allen and Farrow's relationship is slowly crumbling, Pollack meets a young vegetarian zodiactic gymnist, and after much anxiety Davis meets Liam Neeson, a middle aged man who also just went through a serious relationship. As Allen falls in love with one of his students (Lewis) and Farrow falls for Neeson. We see relationships and dreams fall apart and new ones rise up. In the end this movie is a wonderful piece of art about marriage and how important it is, and if we truely believe we want to marry someone, we should think it out ALOT ahead of time. It is also about living a life worth living. Being alive and vivacious, and living each moment to the fullest. In the end you see that marital relationships aren't about romance and sex, it's about companionship.
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Summary: A Challenging and Difficult Film
Review: Woody Allen displays his more serious and darker take on relationships in this very mature look at marriage and mid-life crisis. The movie is painfully realistic and is presented as a docu-drama that allows the viewer to evesdrop on the characters most intimate conversations. The actors are all superb. I found Sydney Pollack's performance as a husband who uses a trial separation from his wife (Judy Davis) as a pretext to pursue an affair with a younger woman and then has a change of heart as his eyes gradually open to the absurdity of what he's done , particularly strong. His actions initiate a chain of events that results in Allen and Mia Farrow's characters questioning their own relationship which results in turmoil in their lives as well.
There are scenes that are so well written and acted that they are riveting. We watch these somehow familiar circumstances because we recognise these characters as people we know.
This is a very serious film with very few true comedic moments so if you're seeking a few yucks look elsewhere.
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