Movie Review: Annie Hall by Woody Allen

As the theme of this blog is free, I will do one of the things I would really like to do in case of having a really popular and visited blog: make movie reviews.

On this occasion I will make a film review of one of my favorite films of all time, directed, written and starring by my favorite filmmaker, Woody Allen.

The movie is Annie Hall, premiered in the United States, 1977.

I think that the film in question is possibly a strange quirk of the director, actor and comedian Woody Allen to make it happen for fiction what seems to be his own personal life, and that, clearly, makes the film even more interesting. In the movie, he caricatures himself behind the character of Alvy Singer -a sarcastic forty-year-old comedian, neurotic and paranoid, absolutely skeptical, and with that typical drop of misanthropy that the Yankee intellectuals of the 70's always have- and he recreates in the same way Diane Keaton -That here is Annie Hall, the sentimental companion of Alvy; a disorganized woman, light and quite independent- with whom precisely for those years maintained a loving and artistic relationship.

It is really diffuse the limit between fiction and reality in this film, it seems to be an autobiography with deeply rupturistic artistic elements. Possibly something peremptory for this cinematographic piece to have won four Oscar is the way it is aesthetically constructed, because beyond the story, it is how it is reported. For this Allen plays with the rules of the cinema, and uses different resources like; regressions and digressions in time, scenes with questions to the viewer, that is, the characters talking to the camera, and even show the thoughts that accompany the dialogues of these. The film adequately achieves the mixture between everyday life humor and artistic / intellectuat's intention, without being eccentric or fickle.

3 curiosities of Annie Hall:

1- The film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actress (Keaton), Director (Allen) and Original Screenplay.

2-Woody Allen thought of several titles for the famous film, his favorite was: Anhedonia, which means the inability to experience pleasure. However he eventually chose Annie Hall by production order.

3-In the book 'The Movie That Changed My Life', the director Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) wrote that he decided to become a film director for Annie Hall, noting how he had "broken many rules of film narrative".