What was deemed Woody Allen's most commercially successful film, Hannah and Her Sisters seemed to mark a turning point in the director's neurotic palatability. Yet, it has not aged well at all. Yes, the Oscar-winning script is witty and aphoristic in a proper measure, the acting is on par with the stars involved (Mia Farrow, Michael Caine to name a couple), but the film as a whole barely registers as something more than mediocre. Especially in hindsight when—not even mentioning the Farrow/Allen controversies—we know how solidified certain tropes and characters types are for Woody Allen, there's nothing about Hannah and Her Sisters that can remain truly fresh for contemporary audiences. That said, being in the company of such a stellar ensemble cast, also including names like Carrie Fisher, Maureen O'Sullivan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. A curious presence here is that of Ingmar Bergman collaborator Max Von Sydow, star of The Seventh Seal, especially since Allen borrowed themes and plot allusions from the Swedish filmmaker's later work, Fanny and Alexander (1982).