Editing Annie Hall (section)

====Love and sexuality====
[[File:Woody Allen (2006).jpeg|left|thumb|upright|[[Woody Allen]] in [[New York City]] in 2006]]
Sociologists [[Virginia Rutter]] and [[Pepper Schwartz]] consider Alvy and Annie's relationship to be a stereotype of gender differences in sexuality.<ref>{{harvnb|Rutter|Schwartz|2012|p=45}}</ref> The nature of love is a repeating subject for Allen and co-star Tony Roberts described this film as "the story of everybody who falls in love, and then falls out of love and goes on."<ref name="PBSdocumentary"/> Alvy searches for love's purpose through his effort to get over his depression about the demise of his relationship with Annie. Sometimes he sifts through his memories of the relationship, at another point he stops people on the sidewalk, with one woman saying that "It's never something you do. That's how people are. Love fades," a suggestion that it was no one's fault, they just grew apart and the end was inevitable. By the end of the film, Alvy accepts this and decides that love is ultimately "irrational and crazy and absurd", but a necessity of life.{{sfn|Pennington|2007|p=72}} Christopher Knight believes Alvy's quest upon meeting Annie is carnal, whereas hers is on an emotional note.<ref>{{harvnb|Knight|2004|p=217}}</ref>

Richard Brody of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' notes the film's "Eurocentric art-house self-awareness" and Alvy Singer's "psychoanalytic obsession in baring his sexual desires and frustrations, romantic disasters, and neurotic inhibitions".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Brody|first=Richard|url=https://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/06/25/120625gonb_GOAT_notebook_brody|title=It Begins Now|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=June 25, 2012|access-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212152/http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/06/25/120625gonb_GOAT_notebook_brody|archive-date=March 12, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>