Love and Death
1975
****
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, James Tolkan, Olga Georges-Picot, Harold Gould
The last of Woody Allen's early purely comedic films is set in Russia. Boris Grushenko is a coward who becomes an accidental hero during the Napoleonic wars. He hopes this will finally help him to woo the woman of his dreams. Allen offers a steady but uneven flow of verbal and visual gags, anachronisms, philosophical discussions and parody on Russian literature.
