A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

The plot is loosely based on swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman 's 1955 comedy film smiles of a summer night A midsummer night’s sex comedy the 10th film written and directed by woody allen woody allen continues his tribute to european cinema, and delivers a tribute to ingmar bergman’s smiles on a summer night (1955) [1] it was the first of thirteen films that allen would make starring farrow

Her role was originally written for diane keaton, another allen collaborator.

A midsummer night's sex comedy

With woody allen, mia farrow, josé ferrer, julie hagerty In the early 20th century, wacky inventor andrew hobbs and his wife adrian invite two other couples for a weekend party at their romantic summer house in the countryside in this paean to ingmar bergman's smiles of a summer night. The further north you go in summer, the longer the twilight lingers, until night is but a finger drawn between the dusk and the dawn Such nights in northern climes are times of revelry, when lads and maids frolic in the underbrush to the pipes of pan

Woody allen ‘s “a midsummer night’s sex comedy” sneaks up rather suspiciously on this tradition His men and women are rationalists. Based on ingmar bergman's smiles of a summer's night and jean renoir's rules of the game, the story revolves around a weekend party at the home of andrew hobbs, a wall street broker and eccentric inventor, and his wife adrian The guests of honor are ariel and leopold, andrew's cousin and a famed academic