Love and Death (1975)

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Love and Death is an almost total treat.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

"Love and Death" has been mapped out as a fully thought-through film. It's a lot more mature than the anything-goes style of earlier Allen movies like "Bananas."

October 23, 2004 Full Review

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Besides being one of Woody's most consistently witty films, "Love and Death" marks a couple of other advances for Mr. Allen as a film maker and for Miss Keaton as a wickedly funny comedienne.

May 20, 2003 Full Review

Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

Thus early Woody Allen film is quite a funny, often even poignant satire of Russian literature and Russian mores.

April 26, 2011 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Woody Allen meets Dostoyevsky, and the two compare misanthropic views

February 14, 2010 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

silly and likable

April 18, 2005

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Sometimes funny spoof of War and Peace.

March 25, 2005 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Stomps all over the games we play to pretend we're important

January 18, 2004 Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

Absurd from start to finish, it may just be Allen's funniest film.

August 22, 2002 Full Review

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

• 1. Boris: Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences pass, it is one of the best.
  – Submitted by Allen R (8 months ago)
• 1. Sonia: To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
  – Submitted by Karen M (9 months ago)
• 1. Boris: The question is: have I learned anything about life? Only that... only that human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there IS a God, I don't think that He's evil. I think that the worst you can say about Him is that, basically, He's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death. I mean, if you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean. The key here, I think, is to... to not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses. Regarding love, heh, you know, what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that count. It's the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it. Well, that's about it for me folks. Goodbye.
  – Submitted by Karen M (9 months ago)
• 1. Sonia: [Sonia's despised husband--played by Allen-- tenderly yet erotically touches her shoulder when they are in bed at home late at night] Not here.
  – Submitted by Jack B (14 months ago)
• 1. Napoleon: How much of your feelings for me are because I rule half of Europe?
  2. Sonia: Oh, I'd say half my feelings. It evens out.
  – Submitted by Nancy B (23 months ago)
• 1. Sonia: I guess you could say I'm half saint, half whore.
  – Submitted by Nancy B (23 months ago)

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