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Article: Autumn Interiors, or The Ladies Eve: Woody Allen's Jngmar Bergman Complex.
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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If, without knowing anything whatsoever about the work of either director, one had seen Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata right after Woody Allen's Interiors, one might easily have concluded that the Swedish filmmaker had attempted to imitate the American. For these works share the same cinematographic and editing style, the same concentration on a handful of overwrought characters, and the very same subject--namely, maternal domination. Of course, the reverse sequence is the correct one: since 1971, if no farther back, Woody Allen had yearned to make what he thought of as a "European" film, preferably in the monastic style of Ingmar Bergman. Finally, in 1978 with Interiors, ...
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