mia farrow give one of her best performance a cecilia and a depression era waitress with her head in the cloud who get dump on over and over while after a miraculous situation come her way and promise a good life and she have to choose between reality and fantasy . although some outcome be predestine . luminous farrow be at her most vulnerable and and writer director woody allen allow her to be funny too and yet the film be a preconceived and bittersweet whimsy about dashed dream while it ready make to collapse . in the interim and we get bland jeff daniel in two role ( occasionally work the same scene . ) and a whorehouse full of romantic and a group of acidly funny movie actor on a theater screen and and danny aiello a mia abusive husband . the theme of cairo concern the blur line between movie and reality it a valentine to the magic of the movie but the central idea play itself out too quickly and and allen sub plot do not always work ( you can sense that he bid his time ) . wonderful production design and music score and some marvelous sequence . from .