
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night' .... (Full plot summary below)
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Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night' .
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyInspired by Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, andwith a touch of Renoir's Rules of the Game, this period comedy is a minor work, a trifle in Allen's career, worth seeing for some of the supporting acting. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordWoody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy is a pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn’t go for more. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanavesePure mid-period Allen, a muscle-stretching ensemble comedy with dramatic undertones and playful philosophical musings...Allen's characters ponder the permeable divide between lust and love, and the meanings of sexual intercourse... [Blu-ray] |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceAllen has no affinity for Renoir's robust generosity, yet this study does wonders for his filmmaking |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergNot among Woody's most memorable, but it's still pleasant enough to warrant a visit. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonNot Woody Allen at his best, this period piece has some clever writing but is not completely convincing. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyA Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is so low-key, so sweet and offhand and slight, there are times when it hardly even seems happy to be a movie. |
| Boston GlobeBruce McCabeIt's Allen's refusal to bask in the spotlight -- his willingness and determination to preserve and enhance the ensemble -- that makes Sex Comedy the delight that it is. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonIt's all very pleasant but also all very slight, with the humor and the romance both kept at too low a simmer. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere doesn't seem to be a driving idea behind it, a confident tone to give us the sure notion that Allen knows what he wants to do here. |