Love and Death

Name: Love and Death
Genre: Comedy, War
Released: August 28, 1975
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 89
Cast: Diane Keaton, Woody Allen

1975

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United Artists | Release Date: August 28, 1975 | PG

Starring: Diane Keaton, Woody Allen

Summary: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Director: Woody Allen

Genre(s): Comedy, War

Rating: PG

Runtime: 85 min

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Empire Ian Nathan

This magnificent, often anarchic pastiche of Russian literature’s portentous habits with a side order in Bergmanesque death wallowing actually finds Allen at his silliest. Which also means it is extraordinarily clever silliness, with designs deliberately stolen from Chaplin, Keaton and the Marx Brothers. It is film that explores comedy’s infinite variety via the medium of the existential philosophy of those big Russian sagas slumped in history like sulking teenagers. Read full review

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

Another episode in Allen's Jewish-neurotic romance with Diane Keaton, this time with Napoleon's invasion of Russia interfering. This allows a string of terrific visual gags using battles, Death the Grim Reaper, swords, grand opera, village idiots, snow, Napoleon and Olga Georges-Picot. As less than half-a-dozen lines are bum, Love and Death is an almost total treat. Read full review

Janet Maslin

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. Read full review

Roger Ebert

There are shadings of comic meaning that could have gotten lost if all we had were the words, and there are whole scenes that play off facial expressions. It's a good movie to watch just for that reason, because it's been done with such care, love and lunacy. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Love and Death is another mile-a-minute visual-verbal whirl by the two comedy talents, this time through Czarist Russia in the days of the Napoleonic Wars.

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Woody Allen's hilarious satire of classic Russian literature, might properly be described as Tolstoy meets the Marx Bros., as he and Diane Keaton get caught up in an uproariously funny plot to assassinate Napoleon in 1812. Read full review

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alejandro970

Nov 4, 2020

What do you get if you put Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Gorky and Groucho Marx in a blender? A comedy in the handwriting of Woody Allen in which he dissects Russian literature and the existence of God, in the role of a coward who has to go to war against his will. To enjoy in an evening.

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