LOVE AND DEATH (1975) ***1/2 Nicely tailored, in fact seamness, patchwork of one-liners against a backdrop of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with snippets of Dostoevsky and every other Russian that ever wrote thrown in, sometimes in the same sentence, and Bergman films. Fertile grounds for mockery indeed. No holds barred, something to offend everyone and much to the delight of all. Woody Allen is the antithesis of the '70s antihero and in that this is every bit as, nearly as ambitious as his later work. The village idiot's convention may be the single funniest bit ever written, Diane Keaton is tremendous. Wanton pomposity and religiosity at its finest. Wheat. Celluloid fibernarcissistic wheat. More wheat.
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