Rent A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
3.4 of 5 from 94 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
- The hosts are Leopold's cousin Andrew (Woody Allen), a Wall Street broker and part-time inventor of flying machines and magic lanterns, and his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen), while their other guests are rakish Dr. Maxwell Jordan (Tony Roberts) and his nurse girlfriend Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). And with love so abundantly in the air, none of them can resist indulging in a little partner-swapping. After all, none of the other couples will ever find out - will they?
- Actors:
- Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Redfield, Moishe Rosenfeld, Timothy Jenkins, Michael Higgins, Sol Frieder, Boris Zoubok, Thomas Barbour, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Sandy Biano, David Copeland, Tony Farentino, Caitlin O'Heaney
- Directors:
- Woody Allen
- Producers:
- Robert Greenhut
- Writers:
- Woody Allen
- Studio:
- MGM Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- 21 Reasons to Love... Ingmar Bergman, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Romantic Film Pairings for Valentine's Day, Top 10 European Remakes
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/12/2016
- Run Time:
- 88 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Regrets could haunt you. - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy review by Steve
Woody revises Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, set in the same era, the dawn of the twentieth century but transferred to rural New York state in one of his most beguiling films. The period is pertinent as we sense a society on the cusp of liberation for women, and a wave of technological change which will challenge the popular belief in spiritualism.
It is a film about sexual desire. Three couples meet at Woody's country home, but change partners during a long night of enchantment as they experience the ethereal magic of the woods.
This is Allen's only colour film in a run of four otherwise black and white productions from Manhattan to The Purple Rose of Cairo (part colour) and Gordon Willis captures the golden light flitting on the landscape of New England most beautifully. It is an optimistic film nicely scored with classical pieces.
Julie Hagerty stands out among the ensemble cast as a sexually pragmatic nurse. Woody scores as Wall Street banker seeking to invent man powered flight. It's nice to see Tony Roberts back again, as his womanising pal. Mia Farrow is a touch subdued on her debut in one of Allen's films, but as a group, the cast is wonderful. This is one of Woody's most purely uplifting films. It really is a joy, with humour and accessible philosophy.
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