Another of Woody Allen's funny-sad slices of life with all its complications and anxieties. Abounding in warmth and humour, it marked a forward step from the disappointments of Woody's 'Interiors' and 'Stardust Memories'. Here he returned in triple Oscar-winning form with a delicate romantic portrait of the tensions within family life. With more than a passing nod to Chekhov and 'King Lear', it's the story of three sisters whose middle-class lives are interlinked over a two-year period. Allen is in top form as Mia Farrow's hypochondriac ex-husband, but it was Michael Caine who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, as the agent who secretly lusts after his wife's sexy sister, played by Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest the Best Supporting Actress as a woman who is always busy but has nothing to show for it. The acting from an amazing all-star cast is exemplary, as is the photography - for the first time in a decade not by Allen's regular collaborator Gordon Willis, but rather by Carlo Di Palma.

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