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- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 32 m
- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Woody Allen
- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 32 m
- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 32 m
Interiors
67
6.8
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Summary Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Woody Allen
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Interiors becomes serious by intently observing complex adults as they fend and cope, blame and justify. Because it illuminates some of the ways we all act, it is serious but not depressing; when it's over, we may even find ourselves quietly cheered that Allen has seen so clearly how things can be.
The film has moments of humour, but they are integrated into a totally serious structure which isolates the family's countervailing tensions with a scalpel-like penetration. Only in a single character, the failed husband of one of the daughters, does the tone falter towards soap. Otherwise the approach is rock steady and, if the film's surface invites superficial comparisons with Bergman, its real roots lie in the very finest American art.
Watching this picture a question keeps recurring: what would Woody Allen think of all this? Then you remember he wrote and directed it. The film is populated by characters reacting to situation Allen has satirized so brilliantly in other pictures.
The people in this serious Woody Allen film are destroyed by the repressiveness of good taste, and so is the picture. It's a puzzle movie, constructed like a well-made play from the American past, and given the beautiful, solemn visual clarity of a Bergman film, without, however, the eroticism of Bergman.
Much of what’s great about Interiors comes from Allen writing a piercing drama, straight from the heart; much of what’s bad about Interiors come from his arid feints at duplicating a master.
Interiors has the look of a Bergman film, helped by Gordon Willis's Nykvist-like cinematography, but it does not have the creative elation that triggers elation in the audience, no matter how dark the artist's vision. Woody gives us his dread untransfigured and it's hard to swallow. [07 Aug 1978, p.83]
Interiors imposes a portentous formality that seems deliberately starved of sensuous appeal. It's obvious that Allen has serious intentions, but they're expressed in bloodless, superficial, derivative ways. [29 Sept 1978, p.D1]
User Score
Generally Favorable
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.8
58% Positive
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Production Company
Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions,
Rollins-Joffe Productions
Release Date Aug 2, 1978
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline The One Movie You Should Not Miss This Year
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 5 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
