Today would have been Diane Keaton’s 80th birthday.

In today’s scene that I love, from 1972’s The Godfather, Keaton plays Kay Adams Corleone, the wife of Michael (Al Pacino).  In this scene, Michael has “allowed” Kay to ask him about the family business.  She asks him if he had his brother-in-law, Carlo, killed.  Michael says, “No.”  Kay is relieved …. until she steps out into the hallway and realizes, as the door is shut in her face, that her husband just lied to her.

This is a beautifully acted scene and one of the most powerful endings in film history.