Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog is just play. It's a comic take on German Expressionist filmmaking, like Fritz Lang's M, and other German art, especially Kafka's The Trial. Woody Allen plays a K-like character who is woken up by a lynch mob who want his help in capturing a serial killer, but they never tell him exactly what they want him to do. Mia Farrow plays a circus sword swallower who's fed up with her husband (John Malkovich). The story is kind of random, half of it following Allen, who ends up being suspected of the murders, and the other half following Farrow, who ends up sleeping with a man (John Cusack) for the extravagant sum of $700. The story ends up being disappointing, but it's fun. It's worth a watch. 7/10.
Review of Shadows and Fog
