A summer night sex comedy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A summer night sex comedy |
| Original title | A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| script | Woody Allen |
| production | Robert Greenhut |
| music | Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Robert Schumann |
| camera | Gordon Willis |
| cut | Susan E. Morse |
| occupation | |
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a comedy film by and with Woody Allen , filmed in the USA in 1982.
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Andrew Hobbs, a Wall Street banker and hobby inventor, and his wife Adrian are expecting guests at their country house for the weekend: Andrew's friend, doctor Maxwell Jordan, who brings his office assistant, nurse Dulcy, and Adrian's cousin, the respected philosopher and esthete Leopold Sturgis, who brings his fiancée Ariel with him to marry her the next day. Andrew and Adrian have problems in their marriage: they no longer sleep together; Maxwell is a don Juan and well-known heartbreaker who describes marriage as the death of hope . Leopold presents himself as a serene philosopher who only believes in the visible world, makes fun of the belief in ghosts and recently decided to get married.
It turns out that Andrew knows Ariel from before and the two were in love with each other. Andrew mourns the missed opportunity. Leopold wants to share his last night as a bachelor with Dulcy, Maxwell falls in love with Ariel and tries to dissuade her from marrying Leopold. When that doesn't seem to work, Maxwell even makes an amateurish suicide attempt. Andrew also falls in love with Ariel again and wants to leave Adrian. There is an argument between Andrew and Maxwell and apparently a sobering act of love between Andrew and Ariel. Leopold pursues Andrew, whom he suspects of joining his fiancée Ariel, and shoots him with an arrow, but hits Maxwell. Maxwell, who thinks he is dying, confesses to Andrew that he slept with Adrian a year earlier and that it apparently caused the marital problems.
In the end, Andrew and Adrian's marital problems are resolved by Maxwell's confession, Maxwell seems to find maturity in his love for Ariel and Leopold dies in sexual intercourse with Dulcy, but his soul says goodbye to the others with the comment that he finally has the spirit State of pure essence reached.
Reviews
- Roger Ebert wrote that the comedy contained little of Allen's personality. There is no concept behind the film. ( Source )
- kino.de: the partner-change-yourself game [...] about men who are never satisfied with what they have, lives primarily from numerous misunderstandings. Although promised in the title, sex and real comedy are largely absent, so that in the end there is no full feeling of satisfaction.
- Die Zeit did not see a great work in Allen's film, but neither did one that was “only 'pretty' and harmless”. In the “hectic interplay of relationships and feelings” one quickly discovers “the fears of the eternal melancholic Woody Allen” about the power of women.
- Hellmuth Karasek saw the film as an "almost carefree comedy machine". The way Woody Allen plays with Shakespeare , toying with Bergman and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is “very elegant and sensible”.
Awards
Mia Farrow was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1983 .
Remarks
The comedy was filmed in New York City and Pocantico Hills , New York for Orion Pictures Co. It opened in US cinemas on July 16, 1982, and in Germany on October 15, 1982.
Web links
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ kino.de
- ↑ Woody Allen's "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" - A Country Party . In: Die Zeit, October 22, 1982, accessed on February 8, 2018.
- ↑ Good old days . In: Der Spiegel , October 25, 1982, accessed on February 8, 2018.