Interiors 1978

     This film is the story of a very dysfunctional family.  They are already having problems but now the parents are contemplating getting a divorce.  Eve and Arthur are in their 60's and they have recently separated.  Eve is an interior decorator and she has always been a negative type of person.  Arthur is a wealthy narcissistic corporate attorney.  Eve's personality has had a toxic effect on her children.  Eve and Arthur  have three adult daughters, Renata, Joey and Flyn.  Renata is a poet and she is married to Frederick, he is a struggling writer.  Joey is in advertising and she is in a relationship with Mike.  Flyn is a vain film and TV actress usually involved in  low quality films and she is not married.  
     Woody Allen films are usually about relationships and so is one is too.  There is a LOT going on in the family even without an the threat of an impending divorce!!  Joey cannot settle on a career and she resents her mother for favoring Renata.  Also, Renata resents their father's concern over Joey's lack of direction.   It is filmed like a Ingemar Bergman movie with red clothing worn by women outside the family unit.  Red is used also for the exit sign in a hospital and the candle holders at the church.  The colors worn by the family and in the design of the rooms are all grays, greens and pale blues.  4* (I liked this movie)

92 min, Drama directed and written by Woody Allen with Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Sam Waterson, Missy Hope, Kerry Duffy, Nancy Collins, Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, E.G. Marshall, Maureen Stapleton, Penny Gaston, Roger Morden. 

Note:  Imdb 7.5 out of 10, Roger Ebert 4*, 77% critic 79% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic 67 out of 100 with 9 critics, Letterboxd 3.7* out of 5*.
Special Note:  Filmed in Church of St. Ignatius Loyola; Riverdale, Bronx; Southampton; Westchester County, New York.  This is the first dramatic film directed by Woody Allen and also the first without Allen as one of the characters.  He usually is known for comedy.  This is the film debut of Mary Beth Hurt.  Allen and Waterston have also worked together on Hannah and her Sisters 1986, September 1987, Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989.