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Woody Allen finally leaving Manhattan with 'Match Point'

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From: University Wire
Date: 20051215
Author:Brendan Kearns

Brendan Kearns
University Wire
12-15-2005
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- This is definitely not your parents' Woody Allen film.

With "Match Point," the latest offering from the filmmaker, Allen has departed from many of the conventions of his earlier work. London has replaced the director's much beloved New York as the setting. Sensuality has replaced self-deprecation as the definitive element of romance. Opera music has replaced 1930s jazz on the soundtrack. Even Allen's own screenwriting seems to have been replaced with a story more along the lines of a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel.

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