Melinda and Melinda

[Mike]

This is a film directed and written by Woody Allen. He does not star in the film which is odd for him but never the less it is an interesting one. It starts in his usual style with a group of people sat around a dinner table in a restaurant. The discussion focuses on two stage directors, one a comedy genius the other a tragedy genius. They are discussion the difference is outlook which generates either comedy or tragedy out of the same set of circumstances.

Their story then goes on to feature Melinda (the tragedy) and Melinda (the comedy) in parallel universes as she tries to sort her life out. They then show how the tragedy and comedy differ using the same circumstances.

Will Farrell is in this film and is actually ironically funny rather than plain daft (not that I am knocking that either!) and the film is more and more charming the further it gets into it. The ending suffers slightly because it focuses more on the comedy (I suspect they wanted a nice ending) but still I would rate


Go see it, go see it NOW!