Crimes et délits

Comme toujours, j’ai passé un excellent moment à savourer les blagues névrosées et les constructions verbales délirantes de Woody, les meilleures blagues étant celles avec les pistaches et les coprophiles. Ce film sort du lot par le fait qu’il se scinde en deux lignes de genres distincts – l’histoire policière et la comédie. On retrouvera quelque chose de semblable avec Woody Allen plus tard, dans son film Melinda et Melinda. (06/11/2011)

There is not a great amount of directorial ideas, but Crimes and Misdemeanors is wonderfully intimate and human, it’s believable, and you can feel exactly what they are trying to say. Life just isn't always fun, and quite often it's a pretty mean bitch that makes you do things you never thought you would do. This film mainly shows this fact in two very different men in different situations, one of them brilliantly portrayed by Martin Landau, the other by the writer/director. Alan Alda was also excellent, playing a completely opposite character to the one he played in Sweet Liberty, three years earlier, where he was deposed by director Michael Caine as the author of the film's draft. And he obviously played it with gusto. (06/06/2013)

Darker Woody Allen is still different. He is a person who turns more towards his inner self and explores the darkness that may exist there. And it's not just his inner self, it's the inner self of all of us. He is still immensely talented and will entertain you. Just in a different way, and maybe you will think about him a little more. (08/02/2016)

You can find such endings in Hollywood, this is life. The rating is more like 85%, which would mean a remarkable work for any other director, but in the collection of Allen's brilliant gems, Crimes and Misdemeanors unfortunately gets lost easily, and for one reason only. This time, he decided a bit unfortunatelly to divide the serious and light mood into two interconnected storylines, where the humorous one, with Woody's classic neurotic-romantic touch, works, as well as the classic fateful woman, beautifully portrayed, of course, by Mia Farrow, and also the charming Alan Alda in their first collaboration. The problem remains in the serious part, where the director unexpectedly stumbled upon the choice of the actor for the main role - Martin Landau is a good actor, but he disappointed me heavily here, because he overacts and tries to show Judah's emotions too literally. I was rather surprised by how much my beloved Match Point was stealing from that thriller part and yet it is filmed so much better and with more urgency and emphasis. The crimes and misdemeanors, in this regard, don't work too well. (03/03/2007)

A waste of talent. Normally I would have thought that a serious satire containing themes of murder and tragic love would flourish in Allen's hands as much as a futuristic sci-fi or romantic comedy, but the story is full of empty dialogue and descends into a whirlwind of philosophical drivel that doesn't fit the whole at all. I appreciate what Allen is trying to convey, but I’ve never seen him this boring before. And not even all those great actors can change that. 60% (29/06/2014)