Melinda and Melinda is a 2005 film written and directed by Woody Allen. It was premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two story lines; one comic, one tragic.
The premise of the film is stated by a group of four writers conversing over dinner at the beginning of the film. The question arises: Is life naturally comic or tragic? One of the four ...
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Melinda and Melinda is a 2005 film written and directed by Woody Allen. It was premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two story lines; one comic, one tragic.
The premise of the film is stated by a group of four writers conversing over dinner at the beginning of the film. The question arises: Is life naturally comic or tragic? One of the four proposes a simple story (a distraught woman knocks on a door and disrupts a dinner party) and the two prominent playwrights in the group begin telling their versions of this story, one being comic and one tragic.
Woody Allen said in Conversations with Woody Allen that he wanted to cast Winona Ryder in the title role but had to replace her with Radha Mitchell because no one would insure her due to her arrest for shoplifting which would have made it impossible to obtain a film completion bond. Allen stated he was sad because he had written the...
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