Diane Keaton is so luminous in this film, that you can almost forget her steely resolve as Kay in the Godfather, or her wounded school teacher in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, or the determination of Louise May in Reds. Her range was so great, her filmography so stacked with all-time classics - that it almost feels trite to discuss her career.
But we were extremely lucky to have her, for as long as we had her. And much like Alvy Singer learns at the end of this film -- we can be happy and melancholy and sad and inspired by her all at the same time.
*Screened by the Cognitive Film Society at the Hewlett Woodmere Public Library.