Andrew Sarris

“…. Part of the frisson of the Allen-Keaton relationship was obviously derived from a self-conscious magnification of the tension between Jew and gentile. But there were deeper and stronger tensions as well between his intellect and her intuition, his maturity and her eccentricity, his tortured personality and her furtive personality. The pairing is so ridiculously impossible that it becomes indescribably moving. It is moving in the way that Diane Keaton sings "It Had To Be You" and "Seems Like Old Times" in an unexpectedly sweet, high register, and a deliciously delayed tempo in which she almost just misses the beat before scooping down to pick it up as her eyes dart wildly and mischievously from behind her long hair. What is she looking at? The camera? Her ex-lover? The rest of us? Or are her eyes simply glazed over with crazy expectations? It is a strange spectacle, and in its strangedness is its conviction.

“…. One can forgive Allen a great deal for loving New York as much as he does. one can forgive him almost anything for the cinematic valentine he has woven for Diane Keaton….”

Andrew Sarris
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