ALICE (1990, USA, Woody Allen)
Very Fifth Avenue, very Catholic wife of workaholic is smitten with bad back, bad conscience when tempted with – what else, it's a Woody Allen movie – an extramarital affair. Chinese herbalist says the problem is her heart not her body, and his cure – involving invisibility, travel to the past, and the ability to live out her fantasies – brings unexpected, spiritually satisfying change. Perhaps Allen's most eccentric film – and that's saying something! – a bizarre mix of Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie and Charles Dickens that ends up somewhere near Somerset Maugham. Julian Fox: "An odd little fable." Indeed.
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