As you'd expect, Mia Farrow and Woody Allen's last film together is way, way too close for comfort. A funny-sad look at the rocky state of marriage, it makes you laugh and smile wryly from time to time, but also gets on your nerves a bit, with characters repeating the same lines several times over (like in life, sure, but does this make it better? ). And the bewildering camera movements will surely give you eyestrain. Woody tells Mia that he has 'always had this penchant for kamikaze women'. She retorts that 'you use sex to express every emotion except love'. This is far from the ideal goofy romanticism of their first film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, and their parting at the end, and Woody's falling for (but declining) a 20-year-old girl, express, more than anywhere else, lives played out on screen over an 11-year period. Good supporting performances from Judy Davis, typically abrasive, Juliette Lewis (as Allen's younger flight of fancy) and especially Lysette Anthony, amazingly good as the astrological bimbo who takes up with one of the splitting husbands.


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