Woody Allen's fascination with technical wizardry continued with this delightful comedy about a 1930s waitress (Mia Farrow) who falls in love with a screen hero (Jeff Daniels) in the latest attraction, The Purple Rose of Cairo, at her local cinema. One day he steps out of the movie screen and into reality and literally sweeps her off her feet. 'I just met a wonderful man,' she confides to a friend. 'He's fictional but you can't have everything'. It's the kind of inventive, ingenious, romantic, endearingly silly fantasy that scriptwriters once turned out for Hollywood at regular intervals. This one bears the imprint of Allen's own wistful, sense-of-loss comedy. Farrow is quite outstanding as the amazed Cecilia and Daniels is more mobile and personable than any movie star of his type would have been (or allowed to be) in the mid-1930s. Dazzlingly dotty.

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