I watched this movie last year, and it is very good - it's funny. Allen is Boris Grushenko, a soldier in czarist Russia (?) who is involved in a plot to kill Napoleon. By itself, the premise is fun. But, you have to know that you have again the marvelous Diane Keaton as Sonja and that's the thing: She makes everything better, because she can play the same kind of jokes that Allen cracks and they have the most amazing chemistry together.
And one of the funny aspects is the "pseudo-psychological" dialogues they conduct brilliantly. Take a look at this example:
Sonja: To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
If you compare this with other movies about those difficult themes such as death like The Seventh Seal, for example, then you'll discover that Allen has a more light view of it, bright. He is dealing with something very serious and tense - and the movie is fun, I know, but it is meaningful. I understood that you simply can't take everything so seriously, even you - or death itself.
