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Life During Wartime
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“Profound in its funny hipness, it shows Solondz as the true heir to Woody Allen, albeit on a far kinkier and politically/socially engaged level.” –Variety
Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz, 2009, USA, 96m
Todd Solondz starts his latest and finest film to date by introducing us to Joy (Shirley Henderson), whose husband Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) is not quite cured of his peculiar “affliction.” Joy’s sister Trish (Allison Janey) is hoping to stabilize her family life by marrying the recently divorced Harvey (Michael Lerner), but her soon-to-be bar-mitzvahed son Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder) isn’t sure he wants another man in the house—especially as it seems his dead father, Bill (Ciarán Hinds) might not be dead after all. His portrait of these and several other major characters—beautifully rendered by Charlotte Rampling, Paul Rubens, Renee Taylor and Ally Sheedy—is tough, tender, at times startling but never mean or condescending. For Solondz “wartime” is not a historical period but a permanent condition: not only the constant battle between the sexes, but even more so the endless struggle between personal desires and the society set up to contain them.
screening with
Socarrat
David Moreno, Spain, 10m, 2009
A tasty tale of family dysfunction spanning three generations.
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