A complete waste of time and money and a nuisance on top

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2006)

Ill, immoral and phony - like so many pieces of art that come to us from the USA. Phoney because it hurts to hear Enrico Caruso sing about love, death and passion from the off and to see this tennis teacher and this half-done chick tearing each others clothes, which Mr. Allen seems to take as passion. Ill and immoral because a many centuries old code in art says that guilt has to be expiated one way or the other. It may be good acting, fine directing etc. but the film is to me completely unconvincing, the actors do not reveal anything but a very conventional triangle story. The Nola of the film is certainly a great actress (Lost in Translation), but sexy? - Not really.