You simply have to see it

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2014)

"Annie Hall" (1977) is one of those films you just can't go through life without seeing. It's very important for its aspect of the romantic comedy genre, but also for its cinematic importance.
Cinematically, "Annie Hall" marks a turning point in Woody Allen's career and his influence on the development of film, which includes the use of cinematic techniques such as a split screen to show differences in scene and characters rather than people talking on the phone, a non- linear narrative, and breaking the fourth wall by speaking directly to the camera. The continual allusions to psychoanalytic study are emphasized with these plainly neurotic techniques. Woody Allen set a trend with the last of those, for which he became famous, and "Annie Hall" is an epitome of who he is and what he means to the history of cinema.
In this film, Woody Allen plays an insecure, pessimistic, paranoid comedian and Diane Keaton plays the titular self-conscious singer Annie Hall. Their unconventional romance is shown in flashbacks, such as when they meet during the well-known and borderline painfully awkward meet- cute where Diane Keaton's character says the famous line "la-dee-da, la- dee-da". "Annie Hall" plays jump-rope with the line between charming and uncomfortable. This is a romantic comedy where instead of two love interests being brought together, they grow apart and don't end up together. It's awkward, neurotic, and funny, and although its ending may not be a common staple of romantic comedies, it is a frank observation of realistic romance.