jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) (03/02/86)
a Saw "Hannah and her Sisters" last night and after the good reviews on the net I was greatly disappointed with this slight doodle of a movie. The plot is two stories, one of infidelity and one about Woody Allen's character's brush with death, and the two are tied together with only the loosest of threads. The first story seemed cliched and predictable, and the acting of emotions lacked depth or meaning, especially the scene with the three sisters having lunch as the camera circles the table. We don't even get a teary confrontation and resolution; Instead a white on black title informs us that it is a year later and everything is just swell. The other story is equally thin. Allen has pungently contemplated death using humor in his other movies, but here he address the same problems in the same terms, but earnestly, and it comes across as shallow. The movie made me laugh in only a few places, and the audience seemed to be responding to past associations with Woody Allen rather than what was actually happening on screen. I can only say I felt it was an unintersting failure and can not fathom why others seem to appreciate it so. Jon. Gingerich