Same Director #2 (Woody Allen): HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986) It strikes me that Woody Allens more serious movies might be the worst date movies ever. His scripts have some of the best insights Ive ever seen into troubled relationships, infidelity, and divorces. No solutions - just the sense that good people stumble into these things all the time, and thats life. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS is one of those movies, though the dark places it sometimes goes to are tempered with humor and not without some happy turns. Its a vignette-based, ensemble movie about a few families and their intertwining relationships. The cast list is fantastic - Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest (the mom from LOST BOYS plays a former cokehead!), Max Von Sydow, etc. - and the material they have to work with matches their talent. No reason to get into plot specifics, but the themes are varied - relationships, aging, dying, art, marriage - and the style is Allens typical conversational approach. It just happens that the conversations are amazing and no one will be able to watch this without seeing something of themselves in it. I think its one of Allens best. Maybe his best, period. 5 stars out of 5
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 05:22:05 +0000
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