Interiors [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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Actor : Diane Keaton
Actor : Geraldine Page
Actor : Kristin Griffith
Actor : Mary Beth Hurt
Actor : Richard Jordan
Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
Binding : DVD
Creator : Diane Keaton
Creator : Geraldine Page
Creator : Gordon Willis
Creator : Woody Allen
Creator : Ralph Rosenblum
Creator : Charles H. Joffe
Creator : Jack Rollins
Creator : Robert Greenhut
Director : Woody Allen
EAN : 9780792846086
Format : Colour
Format : DVD-Video
Format : Widescreen
Format : NTSC
ISBN : 0792846087
Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages : Subtitled: French, Subtitled: Spanish, Original Language: English, Original Language: Spanish, Dubbed: Spanish
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Discs : 1
Number Of Items : 1
Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.30 inches (Length) x 0.25 pounds (Weight) x 5.10 inches (Width)
Package Quantity : 1
Product Group : DVD
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Release Date : 2000-07-05
Running Time : 93
SKU : DVD-1N-01-0112989
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
UPC : 027616851147

Although indisputably a film by Woody Allen, Interiors is about as far from "a Woody Allen film" as you can get--and maybe more people could have seen what a fine film it is if they hadn't been expecting what Allen himself called "one of his earlier, funnier movies." An entirely serious, rather too self-consciously Bergmanesque drama about a divorcing elderly couple and their grown daughters, it is slow, meditative and constructed with a brilliant, artistic eye. There is no music--a simple effect that Allen uses with extraordinary power. In fact, half the film is filled with silent faces staring out of windows, yet the mood is so engaging, hypnotic even, that you never feel the director is poking you in the ribs and saying, "sombre atmosphere". Diane Keaton, released for once from the ditzy stereotype, shines as the "successful" daughter. Some of the dialogue is stilted and it's hard to tell whether this is a deliberate effect or simply the way repressed upscale New Yorkers talk after too many years having their self-absorption sharpened on the therapist's couch. Fanatical, almost childish self-regard is the chief subject of Allen's comedy--it's remarkable that in this film he was able to remove the comedy but leave room for us to pity and care about these rather irritating people. --Richard Farr

- Amazon.co.uk Review

With Interiors Woody Allen, fresh from the critical and commercial triumph of Annie Hall, set out to prove for the first time that he wasn't just a maker of funny movies. It feels like it, too. The film leans heavily on Allen's revered mentor, Ingmar Bergman (and especially on Bergman's masterly 1972 chamber-drama Cries and Whispers) right from the word go, with its austere white-on-black titles and its pointed lack of any music track. The camera moves relatively little, preferring to hold on close-ups of one or two faces. And Allen himself, again for the first time, doesn't appear in his own movie--sensing no doubt that the mere presence of that woebegone face and kvetching accent would start his audience giggling. The plot in many ways prefigures Allen's later, more accomplished Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). The father of three adult daughters announces he wants a "trial separation" from their mother, a fastidious control freak played with pained passive-aggressiveness by Geraldine Page. The daughters, their loyalties tugged different ways, try to deal with the situation and with the demands of their partners. Much of the action, as usual with Allen, is conversation--but lacking the spice of his one-liners, it tends to drag glumly on. Where the film works, the acting carries it, especially Page, Diane Keaton and Marybeth Hurt as two of the daughters, and Maureen Stapleton as the ebullient vulgarian the father takes up with on the rebound. Stapleton's scenes introduce some much-needed humour into a movie that takes itself all too seriously. Allen would go on to achieve a far better balance between light and dark in films like Hannah or Crimes and Misdemeanours. On the DVD: Interiors on disc features just the theatrical trailer. The soundtrack is mono and the picture an anamorphic widescreen presentation of the original 1.85:1 theatrical ratio. --Philip Kemp

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Interiors [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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