Diane Keaton Pioneered New Kinds of Complex Femininity on Screen

Diane Keaton moved with grace through dozens of character arcs, and into audience hearts

Many of the headlines marking the passing of actress Diane Keaton this weekend have mentioned Annie Hall, the film that earned her an Oscar and made her a distinctively haphazard fashion icon. But there was always more to her, and audiences sensed that.

Diane Keaton was a true original

The death of the actress Diane Keaton at the age of 79 was greeted with an understandable mixture of sadness and surprise. Sadness, because the death of one of the leading ladies of the Seventies and Eighties (and beyond) robs the film industry of one of its true originals, and surprise, because nobody had any idea that she had been unwell. Yet it is somehow typical of Keaton – perhaps the only woman in history to have dated the wildly disparate…

Diane Keaton pioneered new kinds of complex femininity on screen

American film actress Diane Keaton, who has died aged 79, was an icon of style but also character. She challenged the boundaries and range of what it was possible for women to play and be, especially in American cinema’s new wave of the 1970s and 80s. Keaton was most famous for her performance as the title character in Woody Allen’s 1977 satirical romantic comedy-drama, Annie Hall. Her Annie could have been the love child of Katharine Hepburn an…

Por qué Diane Keaton es un ícono de estilo

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In a culture dominated by conformity, Diane Keaton was a true original

The death of Diane Keaton leaves a gaping hole in a culture now dominated by conformity, when entertainment feels unoriginal and uninspiring, and fashion is woefully propelled by trend.