Review of Sleeper (2012) by Shane D — 05 Nov 2009

Film #55 of 70 - Sleeper, starring Woody Allen a long time before he ever considered marrying his own adopted daughter. Its taken me many a year to get around to watching this, as it was the one Allen film that appealed to me the most, so thankfully, I was able to wedge it in as one of the 70 films viewed this week.

With a quirky start, that takes a little time before it gets going, the film doesnt really start to take hold of you until Allen starts his back and forth with Diane Keaton. Once you get here, you wont be able to help yourself being amused by the quick witted conversational dialogue between the two, several scenes in which I had to audible say out loud "that was good", dont know why, no one was listening, but it helps me to remember as I'm now literally processing 100s of great scenes.

Was good to get in a smart and witty comedy this week as most of the others that have come this week have either been nostalgic 80s affairs or balls out gagfests. This is a little old fashioned in parts but it is 35 years old so I will cut it some slack there.

Will start myself on a bit of a journey across Allen's other work that I have missed out on based on the fact that I liked this so much.