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Review

This is Allen's delightful paean to Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland" and Federico Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits. Farrow stars as Alice, a woman who has been married for 16 years to highly successful businessman Hurt. Theirs is the lifestyle of $100 lunches and shopping sprees at Bergdorf Goodman's, but something is missing for Alice; she has a calling, she's just not sure what. With the help of a strange herbalist/acupuncturist, and through the fantasy of having an affair with divorcé Mantegna, she experiences a series of a whimsical, supernatural and often hilarious events which help guide her toward inner happiness. Farrow is superb as she presents the perfect female embodiment of Allen's nebbish, and Mantegna delivers his usual offbeat charm. Veteran actor Luke steals the film as the beguiling and mysterious doctor.