There may be no richer single source of quote-banter than this classic 1977 flick starring Woody Allen’s teeth-achingly neurotic Alvy Singer and Diane Keaton’s Annie Hall.
The exemplar of a brilliant and witty caricature of New York Jewry meets Annie from the country, whose well-rhymed grandmother ‘Grammy Hall’ gives great gifts but hates Jews. Alvy’s grandmother never gave gifts, being ‘too busy being raped by Cossacks’.
Keaton is too awkwardly and genuinely back on her heels in the face of Allen’s onslaught of words to be described.
I somehow missed that slice of Americana that is represented by Allen’s quasi-infinite filmography. Annie Hall is my first effort at getting, um, remediated.
‘Not a bad place to start.
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