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Love and Death (1975)
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Writer-director Woody Allen's 1975 comedy finds the familiar Allen persona transposed to 19th-century Russia, as a cowardly serf drafted into the war against Napoleon, when all he'd rather do is write poetry and obsess over his beautiful but pretentious cousin (Diane Keaton). A total disaster as a soldier, Allen's cowardice serves him well when he hides in a cannon and is shot into a tent of French soldiers, suddenly making him a national hero. After his cousin agrees to marry him, thinking he'll be killed in a duel he miraculously survives, the couple must hatch a ludicrous plot to assassinate Napoleon in order to keep the coward Allen out...
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I was beginning to question whether or not I really do love Woody Allen movies as much as I think I do, and then this little treat came along and assured me that Allen is a genius.
This film deals with the modern existential dilemma of life, love and death set in Czarist Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. Allen plays...
(complete Love and Death review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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