A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

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Woody Allen's first period piece since Love and Death seven years earlier is set in the early 1900s, and revolves around six characters getting together in a country house in upstate New York to celebrate the upcoming wedding of the distinguished philosopher Leopold and his much younger fiancée Ariel.

The hosts are Leopold s cousin Andrew (Allen himself), a Wall Street broker and part-time inventor of flying machines and magic lanterns, and his wife Adrian, while their other guests are rakish Dr Maxwell Jordan and his nurse girlfriend Dulcy. And with love so abundantly in the air, none of them can resist indulging in a little partner-swapping. After all, none of the other couples will ever find out will they ?