Just finished Interiors.
First and foremost this was an acting clinic. There wasn't much action at all to speak of, except for the ending (I won't spoil anything, suffice to say it is incredible), which was pretty powerful. I thought the movie was pretty well cast, specifically with regard to Keaton's husband (in the film), and the mother and father. The dialogue could have been better, I thought, in that I found Woody tried a little too hard and well I realize this sounds ambiguous, and I don't have any specific examples, viewers of the film might understand what I am talking about.
An issue I had with the film is that Allen snuck in the same old pessimistic brooding nihilism that seems to be in every God damned film he makes. I do not know that it adds a whole lot to the movie and seems, given my knowledge of his repertoire, is forced and not important to each individual film on its own. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I take exception to the viewpoint as a whole it is just that I prefer to see Woody expound on unique characters and themes that haven't been delved into on previous outings.
In terms of setting I thought they did a pretty good job. The interior design of the houses they were in, for the most part, were pretty damn bleak and reminded me of still life painting and Wuthering Heights. The way that he had, with a few exceptions, complete darkness on all of the windows created this kind of claustrophobic sense. almost, and really made me think of this movie less as a series of events but as a series of thought processes in the mind's of the film's characters and I will also freely admit I thought to think of it like this primarily due to the title and the plot of the movie overall, so in that sense the movie scores points for being direct.
Overall it was one of the better Woody Allen films that I've seen, which is strange because it doesn't actually feature Allen himself and has absolutely no humor whatsoever involved, making it perhaps the first pure drama I've ever seen. Highly recommended to all but should definitely not be taken as a good example of Allen's work, in general, except for the fact that it features, as I've mentioned, some of his favorites themes; i.e. the inevitability of death, isolation, creative angst, etc.