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Picturenose’s James Drew wants to be a journalist like Russell Crowe in 'State of Play', while Jeremy Slater tells you why you shouldn’t miss Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, 'Synecdoche, New York'.
Yet, the reasons you should see this film are because:
i) it is Charlie Kaufman’s first outing as a director and he has real form as a writer of intelligent movies (Adaptation (2002) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)).
ii) it features some of the best character-actors around, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Emily Watson iii) it has a very good script.
and, iv), is probably the best American movie of 2009 thus far.
It begins with struggling suburban theatre director Caden Cotard (Hoffman) facing mid-life crises as both his health and marriage collapse. His relationships with other women are not much better, but some amusing moments are supplied by Hope Davies as Cotard’s therapist who uses their therapy sessions to promote her best-selling books.
The one good relationship he has is with his four-year-old daughter Olive but, after his wife Adele Lack (Keener) concludes a successful art exhibition in Europe that has her appearing on high-end lifestyle magazine covers, she takes Olive away to start a new life in Berlin.
Cotard’s fortunes improve following an innovative production of Death of a Salesman when he is awarded a MacArthur grant to produce a work of significant artistic importance. He decides to create a version of New York in a huge warehouse near the theatre district of Manhattan and populates it with thousands of actors who are asked to act out their daily lives down to the most mundane of details. The strange logic of the project in time requires actors to imitate other actors including eventually Cotard – Sammy Barnathan’s performance in this role is exquisite and funny. During the next 20 years, the warehouse becomes a city within a city but, as with Cotard’s health it degenerates bit by bit, though not as much as the New York outside. The director gives us glimpses of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan from time to time, externalising the internal collapse that Hoffman’s character is suffering.
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J'espère qu'à l'avenir....
Le soleil,
quand le chant
du matin couvre
le sourire avec
tendre poésies,
paraît la lumière
qui éclaire la
chanson d'un
monde solitaire,
et d'un rêve
infini.....
Francesco Sinibaldi
J'espère qu'à l'avenir....
Le soleil,
quand le chant
du matin couvre
le sourire avec
tendre poésies,
paraît la lumière
qui éclaire la
chanson d'un
monde solitaire,
et d'un rêve
infini.....
Francesco Sinibaldi
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