When Jack and Sally announce that they’re splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained.
We love Allen’s films twice as much when they are an open love letter to his madly admired Ingmar Bergman. Like this clever and bitter scan of two collapsing relationships, moving homage to the paradigmatic Scenes From A Marriage. Hysterical, utterly insightful and one of Woody’s finest.