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Crimes and Misdemeanors is plainly a morality play - one that might have fallen flat in lesser hands. In Allen's hands, the overlaying morality play is told with a blend of gripping drama and trademark Allen humor, resting on a screenplay so taut and sophisticated that the rest of the film falls into place effortlessly.
Oct 13, 1989 · Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness.
Oct 13, 1989 · The principal characters in ''Crimes and Misdemeanors,'' Mr. Allen's most securely serious and funny film to date, have a way of jumping headlong from the specific to the general, trying to place ...
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman. Woody Allen. Reviews. Discussions.
Oct 25, 2022 · Crimes and Misdemeanors constantly suggests similarities between Judah and Lester just as the title ties the word “Crimes” with “Misdemeanors.” Lester, like Judah, is a successful and smart member of upper class society. Both Judah and Lester have trouble keeping promises.
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The role of Professor Louis Levy, the subject of director Cliff Stern ( Woody Allen )'s documentary in this film, is played by a non-actor and a therapist friend of Woody Allen, the world-renowned Martin Bergmann, Clinical Professor of Psychology in the New York University's post-doctoral program. Woody Allen has said of this film: "Crimes And ...
