Despite the acclaim that Allen’s film often receives, I’ve never really felt any substantial connection to the events, situations, or characters depicted within Hannah and Her Sisters, so the film always exudes a certain distant, unfamiliar, almost foreign sensation. Even Mickey’s search for spiritual significance feels far too broad, shallow, and silly. Fortunately, even though Allen may be borrowing from his prior material, the subplot involving Mickey’s quest for some form of spiritual enlightenment does yield the film’s most hilarious moment, when Mickey’s father utters the line “How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don’t know how the can opener works!”
On a totally pointless side-note, I always find it weird to watch Sam Waterston and Dianne Wiest dating each other within this film after watching her play the role of his rather indecisive boss on Law & Order.
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: MGM DVD
30 Apr 2008 7:11 PM | Submit Comment
