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Directed by: Woody Allen Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton I'd say Annie Hall's a comedy only because to say it's a romance would put you in the "OMFG Richard Gere LOL" mode. It's a romance in an old-fashioned way: there's a beginning and an ending and things happen in between. Some are funny, some are sad, all of them are so much like life it makes you want to laugh out of the sheer kinda truth of it all. Woody Allen plays himself (well, Alvy Singer, yet another character with his neuroses) over the course of his tumultuous relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), a girl who, as he says, "walked out of a Norman Rockwell painting". There are numerous hilarious cameos (Paul Simon, Christopher Walken) and clever non-sequiturs (At one point the action shifts entirely to a Disney-style cartoon with Keaton voicing the Wicked Queen from Snow White), but the whole thing lies in the fact that it is a romance. Every one of Allen's little vignettes are side-splittingly funny (I have incorporated the phrase "You're like a New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y'know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself" into my Massachusetts life) but somehow deeply moving. You really feel for the guy, but you can see why he's so hard to live with. It's very hard to explain the film because it takes so many twists and turns, but I can just say this: even though the ending isn't particularly happy or sad, it's uplifting. Watching this film honestly makes me feel good about everything. This is, for reasons I can't quite comprehend, my favorite movie ever. 5/5
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