Saturday, 12 January 2013

Shadows and Fog (1991 Woody Allen)

The first in a Saturday triple bill of  Woody Allens.

With its Kafkaesque opening and tone this has me thinking of The Trial, though the sets and shadows (though not the pallette of greys) are distinctly expressionistic.

Features the classic line: "I can't even make the leap of faith to believe in my own existence".

Plot developments with baby, scene with magician and ending unexpected and brilliant.

Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, amazing whorehouse populated by John Cusack, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster (great) and Lily Tomlin. Also Donald Pleasance, John Malkovich, Michael Kirby (the killer), Wallace Shawn, Kenneth Mars.


Production design Santo Loquasto, photography Carlo di Palma, music in the main by Kurt Weil.

A bold and successful experiment.

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