Echoes of Highsmith and Dostoyevsky

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2007)

Match Point has certainly inspired numerous comments here. So many, in fact, that I didn't have the energy to read but just a few. Generally I think that it's a very good movie, maybe not great though, but something different from what one has come to expect from Woody Allen.
In a film as good as this, there is one thing that is quite ridiculous (although of no importance to the plot or the film in general): we are told that Tom's father donates generously to the Royal opera House, but twice we see the protagonists at performances accompanied by piano! Has the orchestra gone on strike or is the generosity of Tom's father still too modest in scale? In the third performance the orchestra is already present.