Running time 124 minutes Country United Kingdom Luxembourg Language English Budget $15 million Box office $85.3 million Match Point is a 2005 British-Luxembourgish film written and directed by and starring,,,,, and. In the film, Rhys Meyers's character marries into a wealthy family, but his social position is threatened by his affair with his brother-in-law's girlfriend, played by Johansson. The film treats themes of morality, greed, and the roles of lust, money, and luck in life, leading many to compare it to Allen's earlier film (1989).

Heywood 'Woody' Allen (born December 1, 1935) is an American filmmaker, writer. Match Point earned Allen his first Academy Award nomination since 1998. ‘Match Point‘ is the 35th film written and directed by Woody Allen. This film looms large in the legend of Woody Allen. His first film set solely in Europe, it.

It was produced and filmed in London after Allen had difficulty finding financial support for the film in New York. The agreement obliged him to make it there using a cast and crew mostly from the United Kingdom. Allen quickly re-wrote the script, which was originally set in New York, for a British setting. Critics in the United States praised the film and its British setting, and welcomed it as a return to form for Allen.

In contrast, reviewers from the United Kingdom treated Match Point less favourably, finding fault with the locations and especially the idiom of the dialogue. Allen was nominated for an.

Woody Allen, 2006 The film's opening voiceover from Wilton introduces its themes of chance and fate, which he characterises as simple luck, to him all-important. The sequence establishes the protagonist as an introvert, a man who mediates his experience of the world through deliberation, and positions the film's subjective perspective through his narrative eyes. Charalampos Goyios argued that this hero, as an opera lover, maintains a sense of distance from the outer world and that ramifications therein pale in comparison to the purity of interior experience. The film is a debate with 's, which Wilton is seen reading early on, identifying him with the. That character is a brooding loner who kills two women to prove that he is a superior being, but is racked by guilt and eventually admits all to a dogged sleuth, and he is finally redeemed by punishment, the love of a poor girl, and the discovery of God. Wilton is a brooding loner who kills a poor girl who loves him because he considers his interests superior to those around him, knows little guilt, and avoids detection through luck.

Allen signals his intentions with more superficial similarities: both killers attempt to cover their crime by faking a robbery, both are almost caught by a painter's unexpected appearance in the stairwell, and both sleuths play cat and mouse with the suspect. Casio module no 2747 manual. Allen argues, unlike Dostoyevsky, that there is neither God, nor punishment, nor love to provide redemption. The theme of parody and reversal of Dostoyevsky's motifs and subject matter has been visited by Allen before, in his film. In Love and Death, the dialogue and scenarios Russian novels, particularly those by Dostoyevsky and, such as,,,, and. In Match Point, Allen moves the theme from parody to the more direct engagement of Dostoyevsky's motifs and narratives.

Allen revisits some of the themes he had explored in (1989), such as the existence of justice in the universe. Both films feature a murder of an unwanted mistress, and 'offer a depressing view on fate, fidelity, and the nature of man'. That film's protagonist, Judah Rosenthal, is an affluent member of the having an extramarital affair. After he tries to break the affair off, his mistress blackmails him and threatens to go to his wife. Soon, Rosenthal decides to murder his mistress, but is racked with guilt over violating his moral code. Eventually, he learns to ignore his guilt and go on as though nothing has happened. Compared the two films' plots and themes in, and characterised Match Point's as a 'clever twist on the themes of chance and fate'.