Saturday, March 02, 2013

Play It Again, Sam (1972)

Second viewing.

Alan is left by his wife, and his friends Dick and Linda, who are married to each other, try to set him up on dates. Dick is a businessman who is always busy, and Linda, who, like Alan, suffers from anxiety, feels a little neglected.

This movie's humor, while showing his influences very clearly, has a certain dryness that is unique to it and to some other films by the same author. Grotesque is also an important feature. I am not sure I understood the more radical stylistic aspects of the movie when I first saw it. At any rate, for whatever reason I seem to have liked it in the right measure then.

Rating: 71 (unchanged)

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