Match Point

After a series of artistic and commercial failures, the urban neurotic of cinema reinvents himself with an unusual mixture of melodrama and thriller and heralds his European creative phase, which continues to this day - albeit for different reasons. MATCH POINT is a biting morality play about a man who, coming from a humble background, rises into the London upper class with charm and good looks, becoming ever more entangled in the conflict between ambition and passion - and us with him. Allen symbolises this conflict in the tennis match - only to dissolve it in the bitter final image: Sometimes it might be better if the ball doesn't go over the net.
(Florian Widegger)