Rent A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
3.4 of 5 from 96 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
- The hosts are Leopold's cousin Andrew (Woody Allen), a Wall Street broker and part-time inventor of flying machines and magic lanterns, and his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen), while their other guests are rakish Dr. Maxwell Jordan (Tony Roberts) and his nurse girlfriend Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). And with love so abundantly in the air, none of them can resist indulging in a little partner-swapping. After all, none of the other couples will ever find out - will they?
- Actors:
- Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Redfield, Moishe Rosenfeld, Timothy Jenkins, Michael Higgins, Sol Frieder, Boris Zoubok, Thomas Barbour, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Sandy Biano, David Copeland, Tony Farentino, Caitlin O'Heaney
- Directors:
- Woody Allen
- Producers:
- Robert Greenhut
- Writers:
- Woody Allen
- Studio:
- MGM Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- 21 Reasons to Love, 21 Reasons to Love... Ingmar Bergman, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Holidays Film Collection, Romantic Film Pairings for Valentine's Day, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 European Remakes, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/12/2016
- Run Time:
- 88 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Regrets could haunt you. - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy review by Steve
This is a revision by Woody Allen of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. It retains the same period setting, the dawn of the twentieth century, but is transferred to rural New York state. There is an impression of a society on the cusp of change; of liberation for women, and a wave of technology which will challenge the popular belief in spiritualism.
This is Allen's only entirely colour release in a run of four otherwise black and white productions. Gordon Willis cheerfully captures the golden sunlight flitting on the landscape of New England. It is a gorgeous, optimistic film nicely scored with classical pieces.
It mostly reflects on themes related to sexual desire. Three couples meet at a country house, but change partners during a long night of enchantment as they experience the ethereal magic of the woods. The ensemble cast is wonderful. Julie Hagerty stands out as a sexually pragmatic nurse.
Woody also scores as Wall Street banker seeking to invent man powered flight. Great to see Tony Roberts back as his womanising pal. This is one of the director's most purely uplifting experiences, brimming with wit and accessible philosophy. It really should be better known.
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