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| Love And Death [1975] | ![Love And Death [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PY0BH0ERL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5732
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 81 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070005035
ASIN: B000056IFA
Release Date: February 19, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1975
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Writer-director Woody Allen's 1975 comedy finds the familiar Allen persona transposed to 19th-century Russia, as a cowardly serf drafted into the war against Napoleon, when all he'd rather do is write poetry and obsess over his beautiful but pretentious cousin (Diane Keaton). A total disaster as a soldier, Allen's cowardice serves him well when he hides in a cannon and is shot into a tent of French soldiers, suddenly making him a national hero. After his cousin agrees to marry him, thinking he'll be killed in a duel he miraculously survives, the couple must hatch a ludicrous plot to assassinate Napoleon in order to keep the coward Allen out of yet another war. Allen and Keaton show what a perfect comic team they make in this film, even predating their most celebrated pairing in IAnnie Hall/I. Working so well as the most unlikely of comedies, of all things a hilarious parody of Russian literature, ILove and Death/I is a must-see for fans of Woody Allen films. I--Robert Lane/I
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Woody Allen: The Golden Years July 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Love and Death" truly belongs in the Pantheon of comedy classics. A send-up of every Russian novel that you should have read, but probably didn't, the film, as the name implies, in particular spoofs Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Boris Gruschenko (Allen in Kulak blouse plus his customary horn-rimmed glasses) is hopelessly in love with his cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton) when the Napoleonic Wars intrude on their lives. Between gags, the characters burst into ecstasies of philosophical discourse on the nature of ontology and wheat. The film was shot in Hungary, and the costumes and sets provide a magnificent background for this high-flown nonsense, as does the musical score by Sergei Prokofiev [who might well be spinning in his grave with laughter]. There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments even though one has seen the film half-a-dozen times. br /br /Among my favorites is an episode in which Boris' aged parent--a "major loon"--confides that he owns a little plot of land [He keeps it in his pocket.] upon which he is going to build one day, and that he will bequeath it to his son. Allen also pays homage to Ingmar Bergman's "Seventh Seal" when he ends the film in a frenetic pas de deux with a scythe-wielding Death.br /br /Although I always get a kick out of Allen--even in his later, far lighter, fare--in "Love and Death" he has approached, if not reached, the zenith of his creative powers--his golden age, as it were, in which his cinematic productions cast a shadow so long that it adumbrates his later works.
Fantastic, my favourite Woody Allen film June 5, 2008
This is such a funny film. Some of the lines, and the slapstick, are amazingly funny. I've seen it several times and parts of it still crack me up. The film making is also brilliant, and the use of music fits astoundingly well. Most of all, though, it makes me laugh like nobody's business.
I LOVE this film to DEATH May 13, 2008
Never mind the plot because it peters out into nothing in the end. It's a good setting and the plot is clear, but Napoleon isn't killed along with a lot of shananigans at the end of the film. This renders it a series of connected scenes more than a story. You will forgive this disappointment because the film is so funny and brilliant. In fact, the scene in which Boris can kill Napoleon is plain excruciating. This could be a positive excrutiation for some, but for me it's too sexist and annoying. You have to admit that no matter how much you love 'im, Woody is obsessed with sex and a certain view of it and this can make him a bit tedious for the very people in the audience (hot young women) that he's centering things on. br /br /This film gets five out of five for me because it is so enjoyable. It's not just that it makes you laugh, it's that it makes you agogue at ideas and works on a deep level. What a good title! He doesn't cover every single angle of the debate about love and death, but he does a good job. Woody's acting makes this supremely sensitive transmission of ideas possible. He's a genius! His acting is more trite in future films but here it is fresh and expressive. A raised eyebrow is so well-timed. Even the look in his eye.br /br /I like the way he talks to Death who just passes through with his latest victim and I love the humour of extremely philosophical dialogue, so that you have a philosophical review and the feeling of being a fly on the wall to the human condition which is partly why we laugh so much.br /br /Yup! I would say it's a philosophical and humanistic film that reaches the parts that other films don't reach. I'd even put it up there as a spiritual treatise. It's sympathetic, therapeutic and wonderfully balmy.br /
 Nice one September 8, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
If the Marx Brothers had ever done a take on `War and Peace', the result would probably have been something like this. Allen wasn't quite at his peak with `Love and Death', but it's nonetheless well worth viewing and has much to recommend it. br /br /Allen's character, Boris, is small and cowardly but finds himself reluctantly thrust, complete with butterfly net, into the Russian army to fight against Napoleon. He leaves behind his cousin Sonja (Keaton) with whom he's madly in love and she in turn is in love with his brutish brother, Ivan. Ivan of course, marries someone else before he too goes to war, leaving Sonja humiliated enough to marry the local herring merchant, whom she finds repulsive.br /br /Boris, despite a shaky and hilarious start to his army career, enjoys `inadvertent heroism' and finds himself the object of desire for a nymphomaniac Countess and obliged to fight a duel as a result. Eventually gaining the reluctant hand of his cousin, they unite to assassinate Napoleon and some good scenes ensue.br /br /There are plenty of sight gags throughout and Allen and Keaton occasionally indulge in dialogue reminiscent of a Groucho and Chico routine.br /br /Love and death are of course the themes of most of Woody's work, particularly in his early years. The dialogue in this has a slightly puerile edge here and there, but is nonetheless engaging enough to put this film among the best of Allen's earlier comic works.br /br /Sumptuous sets and high quality photography give the film additional charm. DVD quality excellent.br /
His funniest film by a mile August 5, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great jokes! Great visual gags! Great parody! Great comedy performances! Great film? Oh well, four out of five isn't bad.
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