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filmfreakcentral.net - : Woody Allen's work hasn't been splendid with any regularity in well over a decade, but his 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors is an outstanding achievement, a pensive meditation on morality in which the Woodman finally reconciles his Bergman (as in Ingmar) and schticky, uh, personas. Martin Landau stars an ophthalmologist who's lost his faith in every sense of the word: he's cheating on his wife and hasn't been to temple in years. But the pie-eyed phase of his affair is over, and while endeavouring to both end and keep hushed his bout of infidelity, he becomes a God-fearing man. Meanwhile, in a parallel (and more joke-laden) plot, Allen plays Cliff Stern, a struggling documentary filmmaker doing a bread-job TV more...
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