Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)

Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
Rating: 8.7

This film contains everything there is to love about a Woody Allen film: adultery, misanthropy, pessimism, neurosis, atheism, opera, classical music, jazz, poetry, pseudo intellectuals, Manhattan...etc. Allen also uses some inner monologue narration, which in my opinion is often detrimental to a film, but in this case I think it worked very well as it seemed both natural and realistic while also contributing to some of the comic execution. Oddly this film has perhaps one of Allen's most hopeful endings if not the most optimistic.

"You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."