People will hate me for this but I’m still unsure about this. I’m not entirely sure about the switch late in the film and the more ambiguous aspects. I kind of feel it’s the result of someone not knowing how to end a story.

A solid film but flawed. The second half is better than the first. This is Woody Allen’s homage to Ingmar Bergman and Chekhov and his first purely serious drama. Yet it sometimes exhibits Woody Allen’s most irritating tendencies such as his characters’ selfish upscale New York behaviour. Sometimes his attempts to mimic Bergman work but I they often come off as pretentious and border on unintended parody. Why is there a scene in a church? Because Allen is attempting to…