1989 · drama · comedy
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Directed by Woody Allen1h 44m1989
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Our read: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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