Delightful Woody Allen Flick

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2012)

Woody Allen's use of interesting and unusual comic techniques is exemplified in this movie. The scene where he inserts his present self into a memory of himself as a child in elementary school then has a conversation with the past version of his classmates as they are in the present was fantastic if a bit complicated to describe in writing.
Aside from the one possibly too long scene of Annie singing at the night club for the second time, "Annie Hall" flows well and feels natural even though there are several occasions of the fourth wall being intentionally broken by Allen. The camera work, acting, and writing are all great and meld together well, though there was a scene or two I felt was so dark it was difficult to see the actors. I understand this is a signature of Gordon Willis, but I found it distracted from the story a bit as I was jarred out of the moment by not being able to see as well as I would have liked.