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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 5

It may not Woody Allen's best work, but the frothy, fun A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is still worth a look.

20

Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4

It may not Woody Allen's best work, but the frothy, fun A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is still worth a look.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 9,129

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Movie Info

Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew's cousin.

PG,

Comedy

Woody Allen

Nov 6, 2001

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All Critics (21) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (5) | DVD (11)

It's funny and sweet in spots, though the light moments get lost in the haze of imitation and ambitiousness.

July 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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A pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn't go for more.

July 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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Warm, romantic and old-fashioned.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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There doesn't seem to be a driving idea behind it, a confident tone to give us the sure notion that Allen knows what he wants to do here.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Picturesque but uncertain.

August 30, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Inspired by Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, andwith a touch of Renoir's Rules of the Game, this period comedy is a minor work, a trifle in Allen's career, worth seeing for some of the supporting acting.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

Allen has no affinity for Renoir's robust generosity, yet this study does wonders for his filmmaking

March 13, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

It's not classic Woody, but it has a warmly human attractiveness about it.

July 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

It's one of Allen's lightest trifles, but it too contains enough funny jokes and fantasy moments to make it a small treasure.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy circles around the nuances of love-a web that both tantalizes and confounds Americans.

February 4, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice
Spirituality and Practice

Top-flight Allen. Probably his most gorgeous color film.

June 16, 2003
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Not among Woody's most memorable, but it's still pleasant enough to warrant a visit.

July 25, 2002
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Audience Reviews for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Not Woody Allen's best - rather witty, but a little on the dull side.
April 24, 2007
danperry17

Super Reviewer

It's an interesting idea, Shakespearean adaptations and period dramas were rife in the early 80's, so to do one with Woody Allen's witticisms was probably well received at the time. As much as I liked the script, performances and watching Allen flying about in a floating bicycle, it didn't quite grab me and I found it a little dated. It's still amusing and odd enough for me to give it three stars though.
September 6, 2011
SirPant

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    1. Andrew: Sex alleviates tension and love causes it.
    – Submitted by Brigita S (17 months ago)
    1. Adrian: Why does a beautiful day like today give me such a sad feeling?
    – Submitted by Brigita S (17 months ago)
    1. Maxwell: Did you not know that I've had my eyes set on you these last two weeks?
    2. Dulcy: I've only been working here for five days.
    – Submitted by Brigita S (17 months ago)
    1. Dulcy: [aroused] Leopold, bite me... Hard!
    2. Leopold: I can't. These aren't my teeth.
    – Submitted by Brigita S (17 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • A Midsummer Nights's Sex Comedym (UK)
  • Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (FR)
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