It is good to watch how American cinema maverick Woody Allen derides French and Russian values.

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2010)

In "Love and Death",veteran American cinema master Woody Allen has assured complete control over his film as there is not even a single moment of boredom in his hilarious tale about ancient times where love and death were indisputably good matters of honor as human life depended largely on life's various quirks of fate.A viewer would surely have hard time to ascertain whether it is Woody Allen as an actor or Woody Allen as a filmmaker which is making this film function as a well structured cohesive unit.Both are splendid to an equal extent as we see how English language and its words,ancient customs and traditions beliefs are ridiculed to create oodles of laughter.It is funny how genteel French culture and Russian culture suffer heaviest of damages. In the realm of world cinema,Woody Allen is generally considered as a mighty poseur.However,"Love and Death" might change that as it remains a unique film where there is no trace of any kind of artistic pretension.It features finest,intelligent humor which help viewers to comprehend depths of emotional as well as physical relationships between a man and a woman.