Brilliant!

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2001)

This is something a little different but excellent. Like him or not, Woody Allen is a genius and this is one of his most brilliant films. The atmosphere of the thirties has been exquisitely captured (other than the modern trains), there is lots of great music and plenty of laughs. I have an ethical problem with the fact that the film is entirely fictional yet is presented as a biography. There should have been a disclaimer somewhere. But I still gave it an 8.