Although in my Woody Allen Films list I place this movie in the third position after Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanors, unquestionably, this is one of his finest works. We are thrown into our faces, once again, the ugliness of life, which is full of lies, doubts, remorse, sorrow and unreached goals.

“Hanna and her sisters” tells the intertwined stories of three sisters from a family of artists, Hanna (Farrow), Lee (Hershey) and Holly (Weist), their relationship with each other, their respective love relationships and the relationship with their parents. On the one hand, Hanna was married to Mickey (Allen), a hypochondriac man that runs a TV show, but now she’s married to Elliot (Caine), who is secretly in love with Lee, who lives with a man she no longer loves and who actually finds boring, Frederick, a reclusive artist whose knowledge and wisdom lured her at first. On the other hand, there’s Holly, a cocaine-addicted whose life is a complete failure. She can’t find a singular regular job, is always asking for money and has no boyfriend. Holly is very different from her sisters.

Through this story, Woody Allen shows us again how we spent our lives regretting that we should have done something when we had the chance. We feel miserable and lonely because we lack of determination to finally aim a target and reach it. Life ends up to quickly and we realize that we’ve done nothing but regret about the past.

In this case, Woody presents us his pessimistic but reflective view of life through a much more complex treatment of human relation-ships. Many different characters with their respective personalities appear in “Hanna and her sisters”. Because of this, I wouldn’t say this is his best movie, but I would say that is the most admirable one and, in my opinion, the hardest one to achieve.

With some help from a dreamed ensemble, Woody creates this master piece in which he combines images with intelligent and deep dialogues and passionate music.

A very solid five-star movie.