How to be an Artist: Hidden Worlds in Woody Allen's Interiors (1978) ~ film analysis sleepy cinema
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- SomaCinema is a series dedicated to gentle film analysis.
In this episode we discuss the 1978 drama Interiors starring Diane Keaton, and Mary-Beth Hurt.
My favourite part is when Eve gives Joey an empty vase.
IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0077742/
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Incredibly well done analysis of this important film. It's one of the best and most poignant films ever made. Geraldine Paige is exquisite as she always is in all her films. She should have won another Oscar for Interiors.
Really nice analysis, everything is on point. Watched it for a first time, it was so deep that I needed to see it in 2 parts, 45min one day on 45 next day to digest it properlly. Here in Serbia we have all the time Woody Allen's movies on TV and they really age well.
Truly enjoyed your literary analysis of "interiors." I also enjoyed hearing Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, which accompanied your narrative. I've viewed this film many times as it is reminiscent of Swedish director Igmar Bergman's work. Looking forward to viewing more of your videos!
wonderful analysis. i'm a big woody fan in general, but seeing this film as a teen/young adult i found it prosaic at that time. however, i see your fine insights into the symbolism and tyranny present in the emotional textures and relationships in this film. def one that is seeming to improve with age, and with greater clarity on its place in film history, especially in the sometimes too sparse dialogue between u.s. and european cinema. ty
I remember the scene at the beach house when Pearl mentions she’s going to redecorate the house with her things that are in storage. She says the house is so beige and drab to the horror looks of the two sisters.
This was wonderful. Really enjoyed your analysis.
Very nice! Thank you
That was very interesting analysis
Probably the most Bergman-esce of all of his films and one of my favorites. Excellent analysis.
Very much so. But at it’s core it’s very allen. all that tightly held neurosis, the lack of close ups. Bergman can’t keep the camera out of his actors faces. Allen always keeps away.
This is very much an homage to Bergman. I think it is a good one to pair with September. It has some funny lines, but it ultimately is Bergmanesque as well.
Geraldine Page makes this picture complete. Agree that Ms. Page should have won an Oscar
I love this movie, it is the family I would have loved to have and the family problems I would have loved to have. When I first saw this movie as a teenager I became a minimalist, still am.
I really loved this analysis. Please do more.
Woody wanted to be a straight dramatist but was stuck in his comic persona. This movie is a great, perhaps greatest example of his depths.
Great video. Great film.
Excellent analysis, this movie stuck with me, very powerful and a great example of a great writer and director trying to reach new heights, if I may, can I suggest for a "Another Woman" analysis?, another of my favorite Allen movies
So glad you enjoyed! I saw Another Woman many years ago and wasn’t terribly impressed… maybe I’ll give it another shot
@@lexiescineobscura ´which ones are your favorite Allen movies besides Interiors?
@@rodrigocontreras3402 I’d say.. Manhattan, Annie Hall, Hannah and her Sisters (the best!) Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Match Point… pretty much any allen film that doesn’t look like he phoned it in. Hannah and her Sisters #1 for sure
Geraldine Page is incredible in this movie. That church scene always wrecks me!
I always wondered if this scene was actually filmed in a church, noting her smashing the candle votives with such force!!
Name of the background music in this video?
Interesting analysis.
Just a detail, Renata is a poet, not a novelist.
...and a successful poet, which means she gets a check from Dad monthly.
Well, I guess it depends on what success means to you.
Excellent analysis. Thank you for posting this. I've always thought Maureen Stapleton was brilliant as life force Pearl. I love the hopeful ending. So unexpected in this type of movie. Of course, we don't exactly know if things are going to turn out well in the long run, but we do know that Joey now has a chance. My question for you Lexie is about the diary-type entry that Joey makes toward the very end of the film. Does that tell us that Joey is now able to express herself in a way that she was unable to when her mother was alive? Or that she's now able to appreciate some of the genuinely positive things about her mother that had been washed away by her negative and controlling nature? Curious to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for watching! At the end of the film I don’t think Joey is at a point where she can appreciate any positive qualities of Eve. If we consider the idea that Eve’s portrayal is skewed by the psychological tyranny she enacts, then in that capacity she doesn’t really have any good qualities. On a general psychological level it would take a person years to untangle their messed up feelings for a controlling parent with any love/appreciation they have. Joey says she admires her mother but as a victim of “coercive control” she doesn’t actually know what she thinks. Just as she can’t create because her personality is so wrapped up in the needs of another person. I think that - most definitely the diary entry is an expression of her making sincere efforts to become her own person. Psychoanalytically (and we know Allen was really into analysis) it is the father (or whoever acts as a father) who presents a path to the material world for the child, while the mother teaches about the emotional world. The film is bookended by these two acts of narration - Joey and her father arthur - and i think that’s pointed. Arthur is more or less responsible for forcing the family out of its neurotic state and reckoning with the material world. Certainly Joey writing in her journal is the beginning of something.
@@lexiescineobscura I really love these kinds of analysis. Often, they give you a deeper appreciation of something you already are fond of. One thing that bothers me about Interiors, or at least makes me uncomfortable, is my reaction to Eve. She's so relentlessly unpleasant in her passive-aggressive way. Everyone is clearly worse off for her involvement in their lives. So, when awful things happen to her, or she does awful things to herself, I can muster up almost no sympathy. It doesn't make me feel good to be so callous. She's not a traditional villain that you'd root against. It's a well drawn, realistic character who tests my firm belief that all lives are worth saving.