Not great, but I do like this low-key Woody Allen film, if for no other reason than its laid back feel and peaceful country location. Woody is out of the busy, stifling city for a change, and if you've been following his films with any degree of regularity it takes us viewers out on a similar vacation from Manhattan, too.
Three couples spend a weekend together in the countryside, circa 1900 or thereabouts, and wind up falling in love with just about everyone else other than the person they're supposed to be with. This is the first film to feature Woody along with Mia Farrow, who's a dazzling beauty named Ariel in this story and becomes the competing main object of desire between Allen and his philandering best friend, Tony Roberts. Mary Steenburgen is Woody's sexually repressed wife.
Jose Ferrer is enjoyable as an older stuffy and pompous professor who intends to marry the young Ariel later that weekend but wishes to sow his last wild oats with Julie Hagerty before he makes the commitment.
A few gags (Woody plays an inventor with a slew of humorous gadgets), but expectations for a bunch of hard belly-laughs should be lowered in place of a more relaxed byplay about love and lust in the woods.
Three couples spend a weekend together in the countryside, circa 1900 or thereabouts, and wind up falling in love with just about everyone else other than the person they're supposed to be with. This is the first film to feature Woody along with Mia Farrow, who's a dazzling beauty named Ariel in this story and becomes the competing main object of desire between Allen and his philandering best friend, Tony Roberts. Mary Steenburgen is Woody's sexually repressed wife.
Jose Ferrer is enjoyable as an older stuffy and pompous professor who intends to marry the young Ariel later that weekend but wishes to sow his last wild oats with Julie Hagerty before he makes the commitment.
A few gags (Woody plays an inventor with a slew of humorous gadgets), but expectations for a bunch of hard belly-laughs should be lowered in place of a more relaxed byplay about love and lust in the woods.