Saturday, 24 October 2020

Small Time Crooks (2000 Woody Allen & scr)

Reviewed here and here, film features a couple who - despite Allen's constant threats of violence - which we don't believe for a second - actually get on really well and - despite the lurings of rascally Hugh Grant - end up still happily together - despite having lost everything.

Allen cast himself against two brilliant comic actors, Tracey Ullman and Elaine May, who has some of the best lines:

"He said I reminded him of his wife, who's dead. I assume he meant when she was alive."

"It's not physically possible to carry yourself across a room."


Zhao Fei was known for Raise the Red Lantern, then shot Sweet and Lowdown and Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

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