I have a theory that this was a big success because it doesn't really seem like a Woody Allen film. He's not in it, it's not set in New York, it's not a comedy, it's long (two hours) and it's shot and edited more like a 'conventional' film than many of his others, i.e. it does shot / reverse shot rather than only keeping things in single takes.
The opening tennis net is beautifully echoed twice - by the table tennis net, which introduces us to Scarlett, and the ring which doesn't quite make it into the Thames. It's glorious.
As to the much discussed (well, in my head) murder to opera scene, I think it does work, though maybe another bit of opera would work better. And, do you know what, if you removed the opera altogether, it would be the most powerful sequence in any Woody Allen film - the opera slightly undercuts its violence.
Everyone's in it - see here.
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