Shadows and Fog (1991)
Directed by Woody Allen
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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As the title suggests, Allen has conceptualized a midnight-alley atmosphere that yearns for echoes of M or The Third Man, a mood underscored by a major plot involving a strangler on the loose in a nameless city dislocated from any tell-tale regional or chronological identifications.
The movie has the foggy look so fashionable in the films of Ingmar Bergman such as "The Seventh Seal," even some domestic scenes that could have come from the Swedish director's "Scenes from a Marriage"-- the sorts of vistas that could tip a film from art into pretension, as Woody Allen showed us in his satiric "Shadows and Fog."
Either way, Midnight in Paris feels totally fresh, not recycled like Shadows and Fog (1992), which was in fact based on one of his old stories.
…out of The Purple Rose of Cairo Hannah and Her Sisters Alice Shadows and Fog (June 30/02) Here's a hint as to how forgettable Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog is: I just watched it last night and it's already mostly slipped from my memory.