Woody Allen’s masterpiece will always be Annie Hall. What is most remarkable today about this film is the way Allen presents it. It is a movie about a relationship, the deconstruction of a romance. Allen is considered a director who reflects very well the women personalities. He creates strong, complex and well-defined characters, and Annie Hall is a good example. Allen palys a disguised version fon himself: Alvy Singer, a successful and neurotic television comedian who lives in Manhattan. Annie, a midwestern girl palyed by Diane Keaton, and Alvy meet each other and they start to go out together. Despite all their caution, they connect and we start to see all the important moments of thir relatioship. In fact, the time we can see them completely happy it is ridiculously little.  Allen shows a series of flashbackas about Alvy’s childhood, growing up, quite literally, under a rumbling roller coaster. We can see his school’s class, his classmates and his teachers. “Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach gym. And of course, those who couldn’t do anything, I think, were assign to our school”. He also shows subtitles showing what the characters are really thinking of one another during a conversation; a cartoon segment where Allen and the tony Roberts character appear with the wicked witch from Snow White, who by the way represent the kind of woman Alvy desires; speeches to the audience, and one of the most famous scenes of the film: a surprise appearence of Marshall McCluhan in a movie theatre lobby to refute a college instructor speaking without sense about McCluhan’s ideas.  Another comis scene, which reflects perfectly the kind of humour Allen always shows in his films, in the one in which Alvy is eating with Annie and her family. Annie’s family and alvy’s family are compaired. His boisterous Jewish family’s dinner table shares a split screen with the one, Hall’s tight-lipped table, Alvy has joined for first time. We can see how Annie’s “Grammy Hall” is showned as a “classic jew-hater” by the way she sees Alvy dressed. Allen makes fun about Jewish people very frecuently in his movies. The third and last scene I am going to talk about is the one in which appears Alvy in the Christopher Walken’s room, as Annie’s psycho brother, and he begin to say “I dream of turning the wheel into the on coming lights.” Alvy interrupts him “I have to get back to the planet earth.” Then we can see the psyco driving, the light of another car and the scary face of Alvy. This movie represents all of the best of Woody Allen. Irreverent, insightful, hilarious and touching, this movie has everything a romance, comedy, and great work of cinema needs.

Allen Stewart Konisberg, better known as Woody Allen, was born in Brooklyn (New York) on December 1^st 1935. His father was a jeweller but he has to work as waiter and taxi driver during the recession and economic times. Her mother, Netta Cherry, was accountant in a flower-shop. He also has a sister called Letty who, by the way, took in his name the Goya award for Match Point. Woody Allen’s family lived in Flatbush, an upper-middle class neighborhood where people was worried about economic safety. Allen was not a great student, his grades were quite mediocre and he had not a lot of friends. His classmates barely remember him and the other cildren called him Red, because of the colour of his hair, which he did not like so much. Allen was very interested in magic games, cinema, jazz and sports. Although he could have a weak appearence he was a very complet athlet, he played many sports including boxing.  He realized that people considered him a funny guy, so he decided to sent gags to different newspapers when he was 16. Much of Allen’s comic material derives from his Jewish middle-class background. His introduction to show business came a few years later when he was hired to write material for Sid Caesar and Art Carney who wer television comedians. After severalstarts, he began to perform his own comedy routines in which he exagerated his own failures and anxieties. He appeared in and wrote the screenplay for What’s new, Pussy Cat?, the he made his first film Take the money and run, a comedy about an incompetent criminal. The followed films were Bananas, Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask, Sleeper, Love and death and Paly it again, Sam. Allen’s next directed film was the awarded Annie Hall, in which the humour of the protagonist (played by Allen) shows a portrayasl of an urban relationship. Allen has been married two times. His first wife is Harlene Rosen (1956-1962) and the second one is Louise Lasser (1966-1969) who appeared in Take the money and run. He met Diane Keaton before writting the screenplay of Annie Hall, which is based in a part of their relationship, but he never married her. He did not married Mia Farrow too, but he has a son and a doughter with her. In December of 1997, Allen married Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and her second husband Andre Previn, which was very shocking for the American society.

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