European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Through limitation. He s the Only zen director we  she recalled that in her first scene where she arrives at a parly and asks where the interesting single men Are Allen immediately took her aside and told her she was doing it wrong. He thought i was smiling too much and gesticulating like an old jewish woman Fisher said. He told me you re coming in like my aunt Velma and he showed me what his aunt Velma was  in i quasi for a naturalistic feel to his movies he encourages overlap talking at the same time interrupting and reacting to each other s lines. In another movie you might be just listening to a person speak says Farrow. Woody would come out and say Don t just listen passively. You should be responding audibly " hell see people on television acting sometimes and they Don t wer condense their words. They say i can not instead of i can the la say that s such a sign of bad acting. You know in life people Don t talk that  the actresses say he has a Knack for plucking out anything in their speech patterns that sounds phony. He s got such an ear for anything that 9-untrue, he can just spot it Farrow says. If he feels they Are falling into a subconscious imitation of a Diane Keaton style neurotic stutter he will quickly put a Stop to it. Once i was halting like that Fisher recalled and he stopped me and said Don t do that say the whole sentence in one clump " he told me to Stop saying Mumm " said Hershey. The naturalistic style is enhanced by the Way Allen shoots his scenes Farrow said. Other directors dislike overlap because it disrupts their ability to Cut into the film in a conventional Way with closeups and Over the shoulder scenes. But Woody s Pace is to keep the camera going in Long master shots covering the scene All in one fluid motion and that Means making atmospheric dialogue sometimes rather than really relevant stuff. One cameraman Calls it putting a Little fluff in there us Many Beautiful ctr atm Farrow does not like to see herself on screen and has not yet summoned up the nerve to see Hannah and her Sisters. I won t be Able to get through the movie we re doing now if i go now to see Hannah. " says Farrow who is already working on the new Woody Allen Carrit Fisher Mealli Allen a zen Dictor. Project. Although i hear Carlo made us look  due to the care exercised by Allen and his cinematographers including for this film. Carlo do Raima the women in Allen s movies always look great. When he finds something Beautiful in a woman he forces the audience to see it too says Hershey. The audience sees the woman presented through Woody s  being presented through Woody s eyes Means turning yourself Over to his vision of How you should look a vision the actresses Are always delighted with. Woody has a wonderful Eye Lor what makes a woman look Good says Farrow. He could have been a fashion designer. He s interested in women s clothes. He can take a woman and dress her from head to toe. He May not always know exactly Why hell ust know a certain Belt is  he personally will pick the Hairdo Check the makeup and recheck it and re shoot a scene if he feels the makeup is wrong or the lighting is  Allen has restored the old Tasha one practice of wardrobe tests. You have to try on every single dress you Wear in the movie and Parade in front of the camera turn sideways says Farrow. It s really  Hershey laughed As she recalled Allen s reaction to one of her favorite sweaters in a now unmentionable Shade of Blue that she had brought in on the Chance she could Wear it in the movie. He said that it was the ugliest color on Earth. He told me never Wear that color As Long As you live i be had a hard time putting it on Ever  Fisher says that his attention to the visual is based not Only on How you look in the picture but How you make the picture  the actresses who play the three Sisters All single and residents of Manhattan said they found the movie an accurate reflection of the Joys and turmoil of love in the City. It s about How difficult it is to find the right Guy yeah sure i m deeply familiar with that says West with a Low laugh. Unlike some of Allen s previous heroines these characters do not give up commitment in love to find fulfilment in Art. If we re going to make it we re going to make it together says West. We re beyond the Point of talking about whether you re better fulfilled with a Man or without a Man. Everybody wants to be loved. Everybody would like a meaningful relationship in their  the thing that got me about the movie Hershey added is not so much the relationships but As the film goes on you step Back and you get an overview of humanity and How silly and sad and funny and endearing we Are for being so involved in All these relationships when really we re going to die. And yet what else Are we going to do it s this wonderful View of How life is important and in the Little time we have what better thing can we do with it except make total fools of ourselves in trying to live. That kind of Sweet ending really moved  has Woody Allen turned some sort of emotional Corner now writing Sweet endings fun l of redemption and happily Ever after he would hate to hear that said Farrow. A i Woody Allan a Lortt i Natlo Phlp of in ref in str in hit now film Hannah and her Sitters. 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