Directed by Woody Allen
82 minutes
In English

This was Woody's second feature film, made directly after his most subversive movie - Take the Money and Run. In this one Woody concocts a zany comedy with a quirky sense of humor, where he analyzes two major themes: love relationships and political revolutions. The early movies of Woody are bursting with life... sometimes the humor is hit-and-miss, but they dare to take chances and cross over into uncharted territory.

This one stars Woody himself as bumbling loser Fielding Mellish, a product tester who is dumped by his political activist girlfriend Nancy (Louise Lasser). To get over the break-up he goes on a vacation to the Latin American republic of San Marcos. But the country is in turmoil, and Mellish is kidnapped by guerrilla rebels... throwing his life into a series of amazing mishaps and adventures. Woody's humor is more inventive here, often even including silent movie "slapstick" sequences that are purely visual (versus the more scripted dialogue-based humor of his later films). Bananas is a witty jab at US-sponsored Latin American dictatorships of the 70s, but it's also about the dangers of obtaining power in both the left and right-wing camps. There's even a small uncredited role played by Sylvester Stallone as a lowlife subway thug.

This will be a high-definition projection.

3 euros for one movie, 4 euros for both.