Hannah and her Sisters is one of Woody Allen’s finest. The movie is Allen’s take on three sisters living in New York, their relationships with respective romantic interest (nee. complicated) and relationships inter se. It is very Allen-esque with regard to the humour albeit with a greater finesse.
It starts off with a characteristic set of neurotic people except this time they are all in the same family. The story starts and ends between two big family dinners of two years, the Thanksgivings. Led by Mia Farrow as Hannah it is supported by Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, Dianne West and Carrie Fisher.
Hannah is a picture perfect woman with everything going for her, or so she thinks; Lee’s sole identity is that she is Hannah’s sister and someone’s wife while Holly the last of the three sisters has a life of her own mostly in her own imagination. Hannah’s husband Elliot falls for the sister Lee and that starts the story on one Thanksgiving, all starting the domino effect; over the course of the next year till the next dinner these relationships evolve.
This movie went on to fetch the Academy Award for Caine and West for their roles as Holly and Elliot respectively. With a rating on 93 percent fresh on Rottentomatoes and an average of 8.3 on IMDB and Metacritic we thought it would be the best to start the week with this one. Personally it only comes to be a close second to Manhattan or Annie Hall.
WHEN: 9:30 pm, 12th May. Turn up in the quad 15 minutes prior to screening and we can talk about this work and maybe even see what can the other movies be for the next few weeks to come!
WHERE: One of the classrooms. Just follow Rishabh when there.
