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GAME PLAYING.(Match Point)(Casanova)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| January 09, 2006 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You could say that Woody Allen, by shifting his milieu from New York's Upper East Side to London's elegant Belgravia, has not so much re-invented himself (as some have suggested) as gone back to the motherland of the Wasp good taste he's always aspired to. But there's no need to be rude. Whatever Allen's needs or motives, a change of light and scenery was obviously good for him. His new movie, "Match Point," devoted to lust, adultery, and murder, is the most vigorous thing he's done in years. The beginning, however, is lame: we're introduced to an Irish-born tennis pro, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a very good player--he played Andre Agassi a couple of times--who ...

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