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-José Ferrer found himself the object of a practical joke while making this film. Dustin Hoffman visited the set while made up as Dorothy Michaels in the film Tootsie (1982), and proceeded to make sexual advances on Ferrer, who politely refused--but was completely unaware that Hoffman was not in fact a woman.
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-The picture was based on Ingmar Bergman's Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955) which had been made and released about twenty-seven years earlier. That movie also inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical and later film A Little Night Music (1977).
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-The film features a score predominantly utilizing pieces of music from classical composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Mendelssohn's music was also used in Max Reinhardt's version of William Shakespeare's Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1935).
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-Woody Allen wrote the role of Ariel for Diane Keaton, but she couldn't take the part because she was busy promoting her film Reds (1981) and preparing for Alan Parker's L'usure du temps (1982).
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-The first time Woody Allen appeared in one of his own films as part of an ensemble cast. Prior to this, he was either the main character or not in the film at all.
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-First of thirteen cinema movie collaborations of actress Mia Farrow and actor-writer-director Woody Allen.
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The film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Worst Actress - Mia Farrow. As of 2012, this is still the only ever Woody Allen film to be nominated for the Razzie Awards.
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-One of seven film collaborations of actor Tony Roberts and Woody Allen, six of them being cinema movie features.
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-One of a number of Woody Allen films where actor Tony Roberts plays Allen's best friend.
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-Games, sports and pastimes featured in the film at the country house estate included archery, badminton, piano playing, walking, butterfly netting, singing, hiking, playing chess, flying, swimming and picnicking.
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-Inventions and contraptions appearing in the movie included an authentic original fruit peeler device, a flying bicycle machine, and an astral magic lantern spirit box.
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-The filming location for the movie's tranquil countryside setting was upstate New York on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, New York State, USA.
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-Woody Allen wrote the screenplay in around just two weeks.
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-This was Woody Allen's first movie for the fledgling Orion Pictures, whose executives had run United Artists and produced Allen's movies for that company. Allen's first Orion film was to have been Zelig (1983) which was held up because of technical problems. When Orion insisted upon a sooner movie, Allen obliged by quickly writing the screenplay for "Sex Comedy".
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-Second of two Woody Allen movies to feature the word "Sex" in the title. The first had been Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le sexe (sans jamais oser le demander) (1972) a decade earlier.
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-The film's Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (1982) was a play on the words of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The movie however had little to do with that Shakespearian play and at the most can only be said to be loosely related to it.
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-The eleventh feature film directed by Woody Allen.
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-The name of both the book and the academic discipline that Leopold (Jose Ferrer) wrote and subscribed to was "Conceptual Pragmatism".
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-Fauna referred to in the film included a yellow-banded butterfly, a red winged black bird and a yellow-bellied sap sucker.
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-The movie's source film Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955) by Ingmar Bergman was described by the "Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide" as being "in the tradition of Marivaux". The only English language film based on one of Marivaux's stories is Le triomphe de l'amour (2001) which starred Mira Sorvino who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Woody Allen's Maudite Aphrodite (1995).
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-Actress Mary Steenburgen, who plays Adrian, was to appear about five years later in Woody Allen's later 1987 film Une autre femme (1988) film. But all of Steenburgen's scenes playing Marion's sister-in-law character in that movie were cut out from the final film. As such, Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (1982) remains [to date as at June 2013] Steenburgen's only picture with Allen.
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-The number of main characters in this movie, which totaled six, was reduced from the number of them in the source Ingmar Bergman film Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955) where they totaled to eight. The younger characters of the son and servant were dropped in favor of having just the three couples together in group of six characters in search of an 'amour'.
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-The picture was filmed during the Americam summer of 1981.
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-The house seen in the film was not a fabricated set construction shell, as many have been built just as an exterior for a movie, but was an actual dwelling custom built for the picture. It was not, however, constructed to actual building codes and standards. After the picture was completed, the dwelling was modified and adapted to comply with such dwelling requirements, and then sold.
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-Back-to-back consecutive Woody Allen film that was based on an earlier movie. Allen's previous picture, Stardust Memories (1980), was based on Federico Fellini's Huit et demi (1963) whereas this movie was based on Ingmar Bergman's film Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955) [Smiles of a Summer Night].
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-The movie's French poster was a photograph of a picnic shot like an impressionist painting. The theatrical poster for the later American movie Cousins (1989) is similar to it.
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-According to the IMCDb, the make and model of the vintage red car was a 1909 Ford Model T whilst the other vehicle transporting guests to the country house was a black Stanley Steamer with white tires.
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-Woody Allen's first feature film in color for four years. Allen's last in color had been Intérieurs (1978) in 1978. In between, both Manhattan and Stardust Memories (1980) had both been shot in black-and-white.
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-The movie can be classified into a number of rom com categories such as being both a comedy of manners and a boudoir farce (bedroom farce).
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-According to the September-October 1982 edition of "Coming Attractions" (USA) magazine, the movie paid homage "to at least three worthy precursors". These were (1) William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2) Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde" and (3) Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night", "in a post-Freudian look at sex and shenanigans in a pre-Freudian world". Moreover, according to Paul Brenner at 'Rovi', the film was based upon "Ingmar Bergmans Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955) and Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game" [La règle du jeu (1939)], whilst Roger Ebert of 'The Chicago Sun-Times' said that the movie "echoes of [William] Shakespeare and of [Ingmar] Bergman's Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955), there are suggestions of John Cheever's 'Wapshots', [E.L.] Doctorow's Ragtime (1981), and Jean Renoir's films".
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-Woody Allen has said of this film's setting and characters: "I thought it would be fun to get some people in a country house and just celebrate summer make it very beautiful, with butterfly nets and badminton courts and picnicking".
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-The film was made concurrently with Zelig (1983). Woody Allen has said: "And I wrote the script in two weeks. Just this simple story, like a-day-in-the-country for fun. And I thought, Why should I wait? I'll do them both at the same time. What's the difference? And I did". According to Mia Farrow, "There were days when we shot scenes from two or three different films". The third movie was Broadway Danny Rose (1984). According to Farrow, Lorraine LoBianco at the TCMDb reports that "Allen worked on Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (1982) during the summer, back-to-back with Zelig (1983), which was to begin shooting in the fall. Both films took longer than anticipated and overlapped with Broadway Danny Rose (1984), which in turn ran into La rose pourpre du Caire (1985)".
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-According to Mia Farrow's autobiography 'What Falls Away', "The film was shot almost entirely outdoors with the incomparable 'Gordon Willis' as cinematographer. Our days were spent waiting for moments of perfect light. Meanwhile I was in the camper (Woody and I shared one throughout thirteen films), wearing a robe, with my hair tightly wrapped around cone-shaped curlers, my torso compressed into a killer corset. Bleary-eyed from a pulverizing headache (the curlers, the corset, the heat, the humidity, the nerves), I just wished I could be my sister [Steffi, her stand-in] out there looking adorable in her jeans and baseball cap and straight hair, lounging in the tall grass, strolling under the trees, talking and laughing with Woody".
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-Actress Mia Farrow has said of her difficulties in acting on this film in her autobiography 'What Falls Away': "At times during shooting, I was overpowered by such a paralysis that I couldn't understand who the characters were supposed to be or what they were doing. Woody, now my director, was a stranger to me. His icy sternness pushed my apprehension toward raw fear. I was no artist, only the most inept poseur. This seemingly straightforward material was beyond my capabilities. I remembered the movie Mademoiselle Gagne-Tout (1952), in which Katharine Hepburn, a professional athlete, was unable to do a thing when Spencer Tracy was around. My instincts, an actor's lifeline, screamed to head for the hills. By mid-movie I had an ulcer and was taking Tagamet four times a day. I was so apprehensive, dispirited, and humiliated, and so convinced I had failed Woody; that I asked if in the future, if there was a future, I could be his assistant, so I wouldn't have to act. He looked at me doubtfully and said, 'It's hard work being an assistant'." (ha ha quel tyran!)
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-Woody Allen has said of Mia Farrow's performance anxieties on this movie: "I calmed her but I was not completely sympathetic, because I didn't realize the dimensions, the gravity. I knew she'd be wonderful in it. It never occurred to me she'd disappoint me".
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Actor-writer-director Woody Allen has said of the public reaction to this movie: "Nobody came to see Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (1982). One of the critics who likes my work very much said that it was the only trivial picture that I ever made. Richard Schickel from Time Magazine. But I wanted it to be light. I just wanted it to be a small intermezzo with a few laughs. I don't say this was any great picture at all, but in general this atmosphere is something that nobody cares about here in the United States. For me it was fine. I had a great time doing it. I wanted to do for the country what I'd done for New York in Manhattan (1979). I wanted to show it in all its beauty . . . I thought it was good when I wrote it, and I thought it was good when I made it. But it was not appreciated at all. This one and September (1987) are my two biggest financial disasters". (Pour September c'est normal...l'aurait jamais dû être tourné c'machin)
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-First film with the Orion Pictures production house for actor-writer-director Woody Allen.
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-First Woody Allen film to uses his regular opening credits title card of "Cast (in alphabetical order)".
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-The later Woody Allen's movie September (1987), like Comédie érotique d'une nuit d'été (1982), also featured only six main characters.