Girls in uniform

"Everyone Says I Love You" is a cool, cool movie, the only funny Woody Allen film in recent memory. And, on a personal level, it mostly takes place on the Upper East Side, right where I lived when the movie was made, complete with girls in uniforms (played by Gaby Hoffman and, as those who arrived here via Google will want to know, a young Natalie Portman) sitting in front of an all-girls school on Madison in the 90s, squealing about boys.* It's fun seeing all this playfully mocked. Strange, though, to see it all now, in a building at Chicago. Kind of like seeing a shockingly well-made home movie years later on the big screen.

*When the audience first meets him, the boy that Portman and Hoffman's characters can't get enough of walks down 92nd Street on a school day and is not wearing a uniform. Where, then, does he go to school? Dalton? Hunter? He had the look of a Hunter kid in the first scene, but then the more you find out about him, the more ambiguous it becomes.