Woody Allen: Analysing 8 Of His Movies Before Annie Hall

6. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) (1972)

feeg Inspired by a book of the same title by physician Dr. David Reuben, the film turned out to be a box office success for Woody Allen. Like his most recent film to date 'To Rome with Love', this 1972 offering is divided into individual vignettes, in this case seven in total. Bursting with erratic characters and off the wall story lines, it's a roller coaster ride through sexual perversions and desires. Featuring a transvestite hanging from a window in middle-class suburbia, a gigantic terrorising boob storming across the land, a game show entitled 'What's my perversion?' and the inner workings of a mans ejaculation - from mission control in the brain right to the paratrooper-style sperm cells dressed head to foot in white leotard, leaping into the unknown - 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex' explores different kinds of human fetishes in hilarious fashion. The film also boasts a great cast which includes Burt Reynolds, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser and the superb Gene Wilder (who plays a man deeply in love with a sheep). It's ninety minutes of pure comedic joy with outrageousness inserted liberally.
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