Woody Allen was no more felicitous a director in 1971 than later, but this is still one of his best pictures, if only because his limited ambitions (to make a funny movie) match his limited abilities. And it is a funny picture—not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits. With Louise Lasser.
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