Annie Hall

Annie Hall (in Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela, Two Strange Lovers) is an American film about 1977 directed by Woody Allen, being one of his most famous films. It won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Leading Actress (Diane Keaton), in 1978. It is part of the AFI's 10 Top 10, in the category "Romantic comedy".

This is a romantic comedy starring Diane Keaton and Woody Allen himself. With a script that has been imitated, parodied and honored over the years, the filmmaker has the luxury of breaking the fourth wall: his characters speak directly to the camera, there are regressions in time, digressions and even a sequence animation parodying Walt Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

In 1992, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Synopsis

Comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) ended a year ago. Growing up in Brooklyn, he angered his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but was precocious about her innocent sexual curiosity.

Annie and Alvy, in line to see "The Sorrow and the Pity," overhear another man ridiculing the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan; Alvy imagines McLuhan himself intervening at his invitation to criticize the man's understanding. That night, Annie shows no interest in having sex with Alvy. Instead, they talk about his first wife. His second marriage was to a New York writer who didn't like sports and he couldn't reach orgasm.

With Annie, it's different. The two have fun preparing a meal of boiled lobster together. He taunts her about the unusual men from her past. He met her playing tennis with friends. After the game, some awkward small talk led her to offer him first a tour of the city and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed like a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in "mental subtitles" like a growing flirtation. His first date follows Annie's audition to sing at a nightclub (& # 34; It Had to be You & # 34;). The two have relationships after the date.

Soon Annie admits she loves him, while he buys her books on death and says his feelings for her are more than love. When she moves in with him, things get very tense. Eventually, he finds her arm in arm with one of her college professors and the two begin to argue over whether this is the "flexibility" he's got. that they had discussed. Eventually they break up and he searches for the truth of relationships, questioning strangers on the street about the nature of love, questioning his formative years, and imagining a cartoon version of himself arguing with a cartoon of Annie portrayed as the Evil Queen. in Snow White.

Alvy returns to dating, but the effort is marred by neurosis and bad sex that is cut short when Annie insists he go immediately kill a spider in the bathroom. A reconciliation follows, along with a vow to stay together no matter what. However, her separate discussions with her therapists make it clear that there is an unspoken and unbridgeable divide. When Alvy accepts an offer to present an award on television, they fly to Los Angeles, with Alvy's friend Rob (Tony Roberts). However, on the return trip, they agree that their relationship isn't working out. After losing her to his record producer, Tony Lacey, Alvy tries unsuccessfully to rekindle the flame with a marriage proposal. Back in New York, he puts on a relationship play for her but changes the ending: now she accepts.

The last meeting for them is a nostalgic coda on New York's Upper West Side when they've both moved in with someone new. Alvy's voice returns with a summary: love is essential, especially if it's neurotic. Annie sings "Seems Like Old Times" and the credits appear.

Cast

• Woody Allen - Alvy Singer
• Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
• Tony Roberts - Rob
• Carol Kane - Allison
• Paul Simon - Tony Lacey
• Shelley Duvall - Pam
• Janet Margolin - Robin
• Colleen Dewhurst - Mrs. Hall
• Christopher Walken - Duane Hall
• Donald Symington - Mr. Hall
• Helen Ludlam - Annie's grandmother
• Laurie Bird - Tony's girlfriend
• Marshall McLuhan - himself

Comments

The Russian mountain Thunderbolt, appears briefly in the film as the childhood home of Alvy Singer. The house was a royal residence, built in 1895 as Hotel Kensington; the roller coaster was built above this building.

Before acquiring the title by which she is known, Annie Hall came to be called Anhedonia ("inability to enjoy life": a disease The production company did not allow it to be given such an unattractive name) or A roller coaster called desire, a double reference to the roller coaster that appears in the film and to the work of Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire). Annie Hall is an iconic film. Years later, Rob Reiner openly paid homage to her in his film When Harry Met Sally....

The performances of Paul Simon (musician, member of the folk vocal duo Simon & Garfunkel) and a young Christopher Walken, who a year later would win the Oscar for his role in The Deer Hunter also stand out. by Michael Cimino.

The script for this film, originally written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, was translated into Spanish by José Luis Guarner, published by Tusquets in 1981 and later reissued.

Awards and nominations

The film won four Oscars: for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actress (Keaton), and Best Original Screenplay, and earned a nomination for Best Lead Actor (Allen), awards that the filmmaker He did not go to collect, since he did not even appear at the ceremony, something that he repeated every year until 2002, when he went to present a video tribute to the city of New York, a victim a few months before the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He the first time he said that & # 34; he had forgotten & # 34; ; this day "he stayed playing the clarinet".^{[citation needed]}

Oscar Awards

34th edition of the Medals of the Film Writers Circle