Show En Allen movie succeeds d again again i f Ai J Jana ana Bess Woody Allen is changing He has earned the right to explore his career and he does not hesitate He has made us laugh He has made us laugh at our hypocrisy The Front at atour atour atour our relationships Annie Hall and now he makes us look look at ourselves I Interiors written and directed by Allen Allenis is a penetrating look into the lives and minds of a family revolving around their mother Eve Geraldine Page who controls and uses them to help maintain her neurotic hold on her life An interior decorator she feels a need to create to change the world around her She seems to achieve a feeling of control of that world as she manipulates every detail creat creating ng an white off-white environment of icy formality Two of Eves Eve's three daughters Renata Diane Keaton and Joey Marybeth Hurt are bound to her though Renata is scared of becoming like her and Joey realizes that she is a asick asick asick sick woman They are caught up in a struggle competing with each other to be creative Eve worships Renata for her talent as a poet and Joey competes for that approval This need to create is like a drive to find and maintain an identity in the enclosed world which Eve has created It is also a universal need which this society perhaps has over-emphasized over this is pointed out in Renata's relationship with her husband Frederick Richard Jordan by the great emphasis on and tension surrounding his writing and whether or not he is re really lly good He is driven in a writing career but he feels there is something missing He is called to fulfil this wonderful self expressive ive talent De' De Deep Dep p down he is actually lacking in the motivation do to to-do to do so r Eves Eve's husband Arthur E. E G. G Marshall decides that he needs t to from Eve and live on his own He refers to it as a trial trying to let Eve down slowly Eve clings to those words refusing to admit to herself that they may never reunite Arthur meets Pearl played by Maureen Stapleton and is delig delighted ted by her simple lightheartedness S She e eis is portrayed as an almost rude or vulgar person and is unable to understand the others' others intellectual conversation Her preoccupation with fun rather than feeble attempts at self control disguised as refinement attracts and enchants Arthur while the others other's embarrassment for her betrays their discomfort at her crudeness Gordan Willis has captured in the photography hints of Bergman silent shots of the family with reaching insight into that moment Diane Keaton's performance as Renata is the best yet of her career And Allen has wasted no time in his career redoing what has made his hits before He has created a moving yet strangely satisfying tragedy from the point of f view of a comedian gratifying to those who appreciate a fully and impeccably done movie h V V x V-S. V V Finding a parking place is n no easy sy job iob in the mornings Its It's first park and students with classes in inthe inthe inthe the morning mid-morning take what they can find sort of a hide and seek hide seek Indy style |