Annie Hall

Annie Hall (1977)

a film by Woody Allen

There is something really fantastic about this movie and is the fact that beyond the gags and the amazing lines it feels like real life. Woody Allen made a hatrick with this film which is entertaining, emotional and funny at the same time. It is really hard not to fall in love with Annie Hall, it is easy to like this movie.

In one corner there is Woody Allen who plays his mask once again with the witty lines and so peculiar that it is hard to believe how sad this character really is. On the other corner there is Annie Hall, full insecurities but so natural and beautiful (Diane Keaton is superb and lovely!). This two characters make one of the best movies about relationships I have seen and deliver a really entertaining and emotive story.

This is a Woody Allen movie so is full of smart references and details both in the dialogue and in the images but this movie provides one of the most memorable gags I have seen and a great example of narrative freedom at work: the Marshall McLuhan scene is great and I was the character wishing that life could work like that.

Annie Hall is full really entertaining dialogues, jokes in many levels and numberless references but is in the end a lovely story about relationships. About how relationships end and begin, about how one suffers and find happiness and about how life just keeps drifting until we meet such lovely character like Annie Hall.