This is one of my favorite Woody Allen films, and indeed one of his most underrated, made on the eve of personal tribulations that would change his life. A very good expressionist/surrealist nightmare/comedy, with homages to authors, filmmakers, and classics, from Kafka, Lang, and Bergman, to "The Process", "M", and "The Silence". It made such a positive impression on me that I returned to the cinema and took a few friends with me, who had no idea what they were going to find, and they all loved it. Great atmosphere and poetic resolution, in a mix of suspense, horror, and intrigue around a strangler of the night, a quest for liberation and happiness, in a kind of dark circus movie populated by wonderful faces.
Review of Shadows and Fog
