Depressed And In Love: September

September (1987, directed by Woody Allen) is a movie about how adults have problems too.

It's Interiors-Lite, even though it was made 9 years later. Woody Allen 80's mainstays Mia Farrow and Dianne Wiest get caught up in a love triangle that intersects with a family secrets triangle to make a nice 6 pointed Jewish star.

Woody Alley used to be an amateur magician. He plays a magician or something similar in Scoop, Shadows and Fog, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, and an agent for people with circus talents in Broadway Danny Rose. There's a moment in September when Elaine Stritch's character, a former playmate, widower, and all-around cultural starlet, drunkenkly breaks out a Ouija board after a storm knocks out all the lights. (Spooky.) She reads the name Nick, her former husband who was murdered by her daughter (or was he?) - the catalyst of much psychological turmoil for the family - and gets all emotionally worked up. Woody loves to use magic in his comedies to poke fun at the seriousness of high-minded philosophical speculation (which he also loves). This scene takes a classic Woody Allen comedy element and slips it into a classic Woody Allen drama. And it's the only brief moment of the movie that isn't completely absorbed in Anton Chekhov - its most common relation.

Here is a room:

Mia Farrow looks like this in the movie:

And there are shots like this:

And this:

Enough said.

Netflix rating: 3 stars
RIYL: Interiors, Autumn Sonata, Fear of Fear
Youtube: spanish subtitles, best i could do.