In his 70th year, Allen has engineered the most startling departure in his filmmaking career. [...] never before has he worked in a foreign country or looked into tragic events for philosophical understanding. The film undoubtedly will find a domestic distributor, but how his normal fans will react to the (mostly) comedic writer-director exploring such new territory is anybody's guess.

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