Interiors (1978)

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1. 

   Vinsmid

   No lists. Incredible! Great acting throughout the film. Very emotional scenes. Appropriate cinematography. 70's but timeless. 11 years 7 months ago
2. 

   Filmbuff77

   A pretentious movie about insufferably pretentious people. I’m a big fan of Allen’s best films but this is a pale, threadbare imitation of Bergman.
   
   P.S. Maureen Stapleton is great in this though. 1 month 1 week ago
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   Siskoid

   Woody Allen's first dramatic turn, Interiors, deals with a family whose unstable matriarch is obsessed with interior design of the beigest, most boring sort, and at the same time is responsible for creating turmoil "inside" her family members. From that initial cleverness is born a movie I find pretty dull, honestly. Meant as a tribute to Ingmar Bergman, it matches the essential look of that director's color films, and has the same golden glow of movies like Scenes from a Marriage and Autumn Sonata (out that same year), and of course it's a lot of people speaking their truth. But the rhythm is Allen's, and where Bergman's characters have an existentialist perspective, Allen's come from the tradition of psycho-analysis, which is far less interesting to me. The former has a more profound and universal quality, while the latter is specific and self-centered. I'm not going to argue the movie isn't well shot or acted, because it is, but the only character I wanted to spend time with is Maureen Stapleton's "vulgarian" other woman, while the rest are just your usual New York art scene elitists, common to Allen's films, but without the comedy, just tedious pretentious people. 3 years 12 months ago

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