Sadly Over-hyped

Blistering performances.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I watched this movie in 2018, and it made me really nostalgic. I don't think it was the cinematography--though this may well have contributed heavily to the feeling--or the acting, dialogue, directing, or what have you. I think it was the subject: people's psyches. Our interiors. The 20th century brimmed with art characterized by obsessive navel-gazing; but i'll be damned if its storytellers and artists didn't make that a thing of deep beauty. what a rewarding experience watching this movie was. we're just as messed up today as were these sisters and their mother then, but we don't make anything of beauty about it anymore. today it's all about *the group*. in the 21st century we've gotten over ourselves (not to the benefit of ourselves, certainly: it's looking like, psychologically, people are worse off today than when we obsessed over our inner lives). and this makes for less interesting art, i think.in 2018, interiors is a refreshing, beautiful film. which isn't to say it's flawless. the rape scene seemed like a deleted scene--a mere rape fantasy. if this movie is concerned with the psychological consequences of a divorce on 3 women: well, the voluntary behavior of a vicious male seems to be completely adventitious to that concern. it's not as if the almost-rapist's action is a consequence of the divorce. and neither is it that his action is the consequence of his wife's treatment, where his wife's treatment of him is not implausibly shaped by the divorce. it is the consequence exclusively of his volition. (this is how we talk in 2018, anyway. maybe a further forty years hence, we'll all be ever-inculpable due to what we learn from neuroscience and philosophy. but in 2018 i'll prescind from that possibility.)anyway. beautiful movie with a bizarre, unnecessary rape scene.

Corporate attorney Arthur (E. G. Marshall) wants to separate from his wife Eve (Geraldine Page). They have three children as the news hit the family members differently. Eve was an interior decorator who supported her husband's early career. However her state deteriorates and the separation puts her over the edge. Joey (Mary Beth Hurt) is with her boyfriend Mike (Sam Waterston) and struggles for a direction. Successful poet Renata (Diane Keaton) is struggling at her work and her marriage to Frederick. Flyn (Kristin Griffith) is the absentee daughter with a B-movie career. The three sisters clash and their father returns from Greece with new girlfriend Pearl (Maureen Stapleton).Woody Allen is doing Ingmar Bergman in an artistic family drama. It is quiet with little or no music. It's considered his first major drama. There are nice performances as each character shows his/her damaged interiors. It's an interesting exercise that Woody Allen is doing but it would be better if he finds his own voice rather than copying somebody else's. The muted tones keep the movie from truly exploding. It is still compelling to watch.

Review: This is quite a deep and emotional drama which is about an dysfunctional family who are trying to deal with a heavy divorce. The 3 girls are finding it difficult to deal with there parents splitting up and they are also going through there own personal problems in there own relationships. There mother seems to take the "Out of the blue" divorce, extremely hard, but she's convinced that she will get back with the husband until he announces that he has found another woman. It's quite a heavy drama with some emotional scenes, but the acting was brilliant by all of the cast who made the movie very believable. It does seem a bit one toned and every character is depressed through most of the movie, so you do have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it. Watchable!Round-Up: This really doesn't feel like a Woody Allen movie. In most of the movies that he has written, you can see a bit of his personality in the script, but this film really doesn't have any of his persona. There isn't any wit or any of his quirky lines all the way through the movie so it feels like there is someone else behind the camera. The really young Diane Keaton, impressed me with her deep performance, which reminded me lot of her amazing contribution to the Godfather franchise. Anyway, I personally found it a watchable movie which will touch many hearts, especially those who also have family issues.Budget: $10million Domestic Gross: $10.4millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there Woody Allen movies about a dysfunctional family, with 3 girls who are trying to hold it together during the break up of there parents. 6/10

At the very least, "Interiors" is fascinating viewing because it's so damn hard to believe it was written and directed by the same person who had made "Sleeper" just five years earlier, in which he also acted, and spent his first five minutes making weird faces at the camera. With "Interiors", Woody Allen goes out of his way to eliminate every trace of humor or happiness out of the picture, and nearly every trace of warmth as well. It's a moody film dripping with misery. There are scenes and lines that cry out for a comic spin ("I want to express something but I don't know what to express or how to express it" or "An enormous abyss between us" - reminded me of the "empty void" that Allen's character was feeling in "Love And Death"), but Allen is determined to play it all deadly straight. In later films such as "Hanna And Her Sisters", he would temper the heavy drama and the psychoanalysis with sarcastic observations and memorable one-liners, and the results would be both more balanced and more enjoyable. But if you accept "Interiors" for what it is, it really is extremely well made. Though most of the characters are clichés, they are so perfectly acted that they become real persons. And Allen's choice not to include a music score is as brilliant as when Alfred Hitchcock did it for "The Birds". *** out of 4.