"Match Point": Woody Allen's best film since Annie Hall?

I hope. He's had some real dogs along the way.

Interesting financing angle :

The movie was shot in England and features, with the exception of Johansson (an American) and Rhys Meyers (who is Irish), an all-British cast and crew because Allen secured British financing, he said, and English tax laws required a high percentage of British participation. Another factor: Too many American studios demand creative participation in his films, whereas BBC Films left him alone.

"I just want the money in a brown paper bag," he quipped.

Desson Thomson has a gossipy column about Cannes Film Festival in the Washington Post.