Hannah and Her Sisters: Woody peaking? Or just Woody-ing?

Alright folks, just finished re-watching 'Hannah and Her Sisters' and I'm wrestling with it. On the one hand, it's undeniably Woody Allen firing on a lot of cylinders. The performances are fantastic across the board – Mia Farrow as the seemingly perfect Hannah, Barbara Hershey as the restless, intellectual Lee, and Dianne Wiest as the perpetually struggling Holly are all just chef's kiss. The dialogue, even when neurotic, feels real and sharp. The Thanksgiving dinner scenes, especially the opening one, are these beautiful, messy portraits of family dynamics, the kind where everyone's trying to project an image of happiness while simmering with their own anxieties and resentments. But, and this is a big but, the whole May-December thing with Lee and Elliot (Michael Caine) still makes me deeply uncomfortable. I know it's 'art' and meant to explore the complexities of desire, but it feels…icky. Especially knowing, you know, gestures wildly at Woody's personal life. It casts a pall over the whole film, even though the other storylines – Mickey (Woody himself, naturally) grappling with his existential dread and rekindling things with Holly – are genuinely funny and poignant. The scene where Mickey finds solace after almost killing himself at a movie theatre is a classic. I also think the 'resolution' feels a bit too pat. Everyone conveniently finds happiness or a path toward it by the end. It feels like a tidy bow on a messy, complicated package. Like, did anyone actually learn anything? Or did they just shuffle partners and find temporary contentment? And god, Dianne Weist is so goddamn good, I almost wish the movie was just about Holly finding her pottery calling. Speaking of Wiest, she is so underrated. So, yeah, 'Hannah and Her Sisters'. A film I admire, appreciate, and am ultimately a little ambivalent about. It's Woody at his most Woody, for better and for worse. What did you guys think? Am I being too sensitive about the Lee/Elliot dynamic, or is it genuinely off-putting?