Interiors

Interiors (in Spanish, Interiores), is a turn in Woody Allen's career, leaving comedy aside and getting fully into melodrama, in a clear film exercise that emulates his idol, the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman with a great female cast in the style of the director.

Plot

A family made up of three sisters is seen in the painful process of separating their parents. The separation of his father from his mentally unstable obsessive and controlling mother and his marriage to a "normal" woman.

With well-constructed characters that relate to each other in beautifully decorated but empty and icy interiors as the soul of the central character (the mother who works as an interior decorator) and in the style of the playwright Anton Chekhov, (another of the objects of desire of the New York filmmaker) it is precisely in this fact that the emotional charge of the characters is intensified to the limit.

Comments

This is the first film in which Allen only directs, but does not act.

Although it was coolly received, the film earned five Oscar nominations.

Woody Allen jokes that "this is a film for Europeans," accustomed to deeper, more complex cinema and even a slower pace.

It brought together two of the greatest actresses of the American theater in a virtual duel (Geraldine Page and Maureen Stapleton), for which both won Oscar nominations although neither won.

The script of this film, original by Woody Allen, was translated into Spanish by José Luis Guarner, published by Tusquets in 1978 and later republished.