Interiors
A severe, beautifully controlled family drama about divorce, emotional inheritance, and the struggle to reclaim a life from corrosive domestic patterns.
Overview
A poignant exploration of family dynamics and the haunting effects of divorce.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- somber
- austere
- melancholic
- quiet evening
- arthouse film night
What critics said
Critics generally praised the film's assured transition into serious drama, cool visual design, and powerful performances, while finding its Bergmanesque severity unevenly energetic.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Eve's negativity shapes the stifling marriages, careers, and self-conceptions of her three adult daughters.
Gordon Willis's cool colors and controlled compositions externalize the family's emotional suppression and precarious social order.
The film explicitly draws on Ingmar Bergman and Chekhovian traditions while treating divorce and family relationships with severe introspection.
Eve, Arthur, Renata, Joey, and Flyn are presented through intersecting perspectives on the separation and its effects.
Films like Interiors, and why
Autumn Sonata
somber family drama, psychological repression, and bergmanesque emotional austerity
Scenes from a Marriage
intimate dysfunctional family relationships, divorce, and corrosive emotional inheritance
The Ice Storm
literary family conflict, existential melancholy, and intense chamber-drama performances
A Woman Under the Influence
new hollywood domestic drama centered on strained marriages and emotional alienation
Movie Details
- Director
- Woody Allen
- Release Date
- 1978-08-02
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 (401)
Cast
- Geraldine Page
- Kristin Griffith
- Mary Beth Hurt
- Richard Jordan
- Diane Keaton
- E.G. Marshall
- Maureen Stapleton
- Sam Waterston
- Missy Hope
- Kerry Duffy
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Interiors about?
- A severe, beautifully controlled family drama about divorce, emotional inheritance, and the struggle to reclaim a life from corrosive domestic patterns.
- What is Interiors like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Interiors as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Interiors violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Interiors as mild.
- What did critics think of Interiors?
- Critics generally praised the film's assured transition into serious drama, cool visual design, and powerful performances, while finding its Bergmanesque severity unevenly energetic.
- Which films are like Interiors?
- Films with a similar feel include Autumn Sonata, Scenes from a Marriage, The Ice Storm, and A Woman Under the Influence.
- How long is Interiors?
- Interiors runs 93 minutes.
- Where can I watch Interiors?
- In United States, Interiors is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
