Seems like old times

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2009)

'Annie Hall', Woody Allen's sublime romance of 1977 hasn't aged a single second since its release. The fabulous interplay between Woody Allen as Alvy Singer, firing all his cylinders (in his best acting performance) and the lovely Diane Keaton as the title-character, and they create such a vivid, colorful, charming and enjoyable core in this Best Picture-winning masterpiece of comedy and romance, but strangely and absolutely most interestingly is that it's not really your average romantic comedy; there are great moments of slapstick, brilliantly witty dialog, technical wizardry by adding cartoons, "subtitling minds", doing Bergmansque and Fellini-ish (his two great inspirations) elements and scenes, great and effortless lapses in time and place, and great insights into different New York-lives and stereotypes acted out by Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall and Christopher Walken.
And throughout the 90 minutes duration-time the romance between Alvy (Allen) and Annie (Keaton) flourishes in its own pace and naturalism, even though it is surrounded by Woody Allen's aforementioned talent and ideas at his most inventive, that simply enhances the story. The greatly nostalgic ending gives you that longing yet satisfied feeling of what love brings into life, and the completely silent credit-roll is another stroke of genius from Allen as you simply want to see it again and again and again.