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Shadows and Fog (1991)

Director: Woody Allen

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An inconclusive charade for celebrity guests, Allen's film - made before Husbands and Wives - will add to the general sifting through the oeuvre for relevances to his personal predicament, without registering as a work on its own. This is Woody as Bergman, Woody as Punchinello, both over-familiar. He plays Kleinman, a nebbich, hopelessly besotted with a sword-swallower from the circus (Farrow). She has run away from her husband (Malkovich), an egotistical womanising clown who is cheating with the trapeze artiste (Madonna). There's a desultory subplot about The Ripper, but most of the action features Woody and Mia wandering nighttown, he witteringly supportive, she kvetching. The shadows of German Expressionist cinema have been superbly revived, but to little purpose.

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Cast & crew

Director: Woody Allen

Producer: Robert Greenhut

Cast: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, Madonna, John Malkovich, Kenneth Mars, Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasence, Lily Tomlin, Philip Bosco, Wallace Shawn, Josef Sommer, David Ogden Stiers full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 86 mins


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