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Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

Love and Nostalgia in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” (1977)

1 tim 6 min15 februari 2021

Alvy Singer is not, he tells us, a depressive character. It’s just that as a child he always worried that the expanding universe would one day break apart; and as an adult that romantic relationships must always fall apart. With Annie Hall, he thought he had finally found something that would last, in part because she could — like the audiences of Woody Allen — endure and make sense of his fragmented neuroticism: by finding it, on occasion, funny, or endearing, or even informative. While Annie’s patient, quirky fatalism does not prevent her from outgrowing Alvy and leaving him behind, the nostalgic and wistful frame of Allen’s film does have something to say about what helps keep love alive, and people connected.

This episode’s conversation continues on our after-show (post)script.

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Thanks to Nick Ketter for the audio editing on this episode.

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