The man who penetrated my dreams and shook my passions

Le Regard Libre N° 66 - Anaïs Sierro

It's to the sounds of my record player squeaking, Bechet's clarinet and the night rain that I'm about to write this article. The mood is set. Vintage, jazz, romanticism and a theme, that of a director who has fascinated me for many years: Woody Allen. He was the first and only director to offer me films that seemed to come out of my head and his hallucinatory reflections, but also the first to penetrate my dreams and passions. Here's Allen from the «point of view» of what we'd call: an admirer.

It's hard not to realize that, apart from cinema, jazz is an integral part of his life. The proof is in his pseudonym Woody. Born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, he owes this choice to clarinettist Woody Herman. It's a passion he's nurtured since he was a teenager, and one that will continue to pursue him throughout his life.