Buff's Choice
The Age
Friday June 26, 2009
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex *But Were Afraid To Ask(Woody Allen, 1972)FREUD knew how useful resistance was in a patient but Woody Allen shows how indispensable it is in the relationship between comic and audience. The laughs come just when you are not quite sure of your thoughts. What is the response to Gene Wilder checking into a hotel with Daisy the sheep? How is the policeman going to react to the attack of the monstrous breast? Playing it straight to the perversions is the key. Allen knows the funniest thing about sex occurs to you when you are trying to be serious about it.Playing with Sleeper (1973) at The Astor, St Kilda, Monday from 7.30pm.
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