Saturday, April 07, 2007
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Early on, 'someone' is reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in this Woody Allen film:
The 'someone' in this case didn't get it. Too much scheming I suppose.
If 'someone' had gotten it, they could have saved themselves a good bit of trouble but then they might not have.............
Well, never mind. We would not have had this great edge of the seat story either.
This is a really good film. Even good for Woody Allen who has found a new life in his first London based production.
The cast is great and plays nicely together.
It is fun to watch the big-lipped Jonathan Rhys Meyers and the even lippier Scarlett Johansson go at it; a real lip mashup.
Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode and Brian Cox fill out the film family where money is no object for anything you want.
Cox just disappears into all his roles. Great.
It is a 5 out of Netflix5 but with Allen, ratings are beside the point.
This is not a NYTimes Best Film because it came after that list was compiled. I just wanted to see it.
