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Article: Power Point; With Match Point, Woody Allen returns to form.
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- Monterey County Weekly
- Article date:
- January 19, 2006
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Maybe all Woody Allen needed was a change of scenery. Actually, except for the accents, the London of his Match Point is a lot like his typical Manhattan milieu, a playground for the rich and well-educated. Still, the move has yielded his most bracing, sure-handed and satisfying film in at least a decade.
An opening voiceover suggests that the movie's theme will be the importance of luck. That might sound trivial, but in fact the announcement is an artful bit of narrative misdirection from Allen, one of many throughout the film, since what the narrator self-servingly calls luck is actually the absence of justice (or karma, or moral order, call it what you will). Allen's depiction here ...