Dir/Wri: Woody Allen | Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton | Comedy 1975
Probably Woody Allen’s most ambitious film – full of references to the likes of Eisenstein and Bergman and with the music credited to Prokofiev – ‘Love and Death’ was also to be the last of his “early funny films” as a result of a decision taken one night half a century ago when Allen was shivering alone in a hotel room in Zagreb and resolved never again to make another film outside commuting distance of Times Square.
And it showed.
For all its merits watching it now is a deeply melancholy experience, particularly since it serves as reminder of just how unaffected and appealing Diane Keaton was then capable of being. @RichardChatten