Manhattan

Unlike Woody Allen’s best films, Manhattan won’t make you laugh or engage you in a relationship drama. It will, however, warm the cockles of your heart with its relaxed, natural flow, black-and-white aesthetics and fantastic atmosphere of the time and place. And the final dialogue serves as an intelligent conclusion. A jazz-like film. (25/11/2012)

You are happy, you lack nothing, everything is fine. And suddenly someone appears who shows you that you could be even happier and you wonder how you managed to live without them until now. Eventually, a person takes a step in one direction or another, but - something always appears anyway. The purest dose of pure romance, experiences, anti-snobbism, ironically exaggerated conversations about art, and Woody's best performance, scriptwriting, and directing form. I recognized myself in so many places, smiling and saddening. I have seen scenes that seemed to come from my ideas of ideal partnership or my future. And one day, I will find myself completely in Manhattan. (17/10/2005)

Manhattan didn't awaken bursts of laughter in me, rather it impressed me with its highly intellectual and sophisticated script, in which, paradoxically, I didn't understand much of the dialogue at all. The plot is neither complicated nor unorthodox, it is simply a story from life. The cast was really perfect, especially Diane Keaton and Mariel Hemingway. I liked the music, which reminded me terribly of the atmosphere of the music clubs and entertainment venues of the first half of the 20th century. A typically conversational Woody Allen, who, although he doesn't wow or burst your diaphragm with laughter, nevertheless captivates and puts a smile on your face. (23/07/2013)

Woody Allen is in excellent form, but it's almost annoying how much he fixates on New York and its beauty. It's almost like propaganda at times. However, his dialogues flow like poetry, they are properly impactful and thanks to him, they are delivered perfectly. You simply can't come up with some of his lines. The use of black and white is definitely an interesting step. (20/11/2015)

First, Woody Allen clumsily picked the mistress in the form of a 17-year-old masculine woman, who looks more like a boy from a cornfield than like an underage girl from Manhattan, and then he decided to bombard me with a few unrelated texts, which were actually supposed to make sense in the context of his way of life. The result is such that I actually found out that in Manhattan at the end of the 1970s they had tap water as rusty as the freshest beer from a local tavern and that girls sought out boys who could talk about art for 20 minutes straight in an ostentatiously dull manner. An interesting movie, but I cannot say that it impressed me all that much. (10/11/2015)