This is one of Woody Allen's greatest films, and a devastating redo of the themes from Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries.
This scene shows the lead character, played by Gena Rowlands, getting hit with her own words by her own brother. The crux is that what she says is absolutely true, but the way she said it, and in what context, is what mattered:
Here the woman meets 'another woman' with similar problems and a similar life history:
The revelation within, and the acting by Rowlands, is superb. Anyone with the misfortune of knowing Academics, understands just how brilliantly Allen nails this scene.
Here's a link to the trailer.
This film offers alot to people going through life changes; especially women coping with the end of a marriage. It displays regrets and the human ability to deny responsibility for their own parts in their failures.
The film's end is realistic. There is no easy out, but the lead character has gotten to the point where she sees that the future is not all despair, and that by recognizing her truer self in the past she can then focus on the future. Ok, what I've typed sounds soap operatic, but Allen takes what could be melodrama and makes it into high art.
Along with Stardust Memories, this film is one of the 5 or 6 greatest in the Allen canon and I recommend it to all.
