Why Annie Hall is Annie Hall ...

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2014)

The grasp of Annie Hall is extremely difficult to get in one sitting. I mean, only some parts, not the whole ....
The first sitting may get you an Academy, which in itself, is a huge thing ....
What I am talking about is, the in-depth it penetrated (if that is the right word), will get to you after further viewings.
Annie Hall does has a mood of itself.. a charisma which can only be defined by Woody Allen - Diane Keaton - Duo. See, the thing is that everything fell into place perfectly for Allen at the exact right moment. He was able to do the right (if not best) script, the best acting result from Keaton (no doubts about that), the fashion specially for Keaton, the idea of split screens imaginative views and that too with dialogs (did not work for him much later), best ever direction from him ever and maybe other things like these.
He was able to squeeze the LA - NYC hostility into it which gave way to some further " dramatic " ideas as well as the psycho analysis thing which only a few people go through actually, the intellectuality that was shown only so little yet made the settings among the duo so real ......
Sit through it the first time if you are a teenager or a little older, sit it again after a month or two, it will get you like none other has, I promise.
If you are not a teenager, you will get this anyways .... a good 8.