Starts off as a cute movie, but as you watch it, it becomes a ridiculous mess! It makes very little sense, and I would like to get my 2 hours back. AWFUL!!!!!!!!!
Synecdoche, New York
2008
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Synecdoche, New York
2008
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
68% - Critics
71% - Audience
7.6
Synopsis
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mock-up of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress ...
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December 06, 2011 at 07:48 PM
Director
Cast
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard
Robin Weigert as Adult Olive
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Maria
Michelle Williams as Claire Keen
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Absolute Garbage!!!!!!
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Drivel from start to finish
This movie is so appalling I cannot understand how anyone could give it a good review. The cast is impeccable but why, I have to ask, did they agree to be part of something so utterly crass? It is drivel almost from start to finish - actually, I didn't even get to the end...
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Smart, postmodern movie, well worth watching
This is a movie about a depressed playwright who receives a "genius" grant and tries to justify himself (and his series of failed romantic relationships) by producing the most profound play imaginable. Very funny for smart people (which includes many of us). Basically fantastic and absurd, It also succeeds in being conspicuously postmodern at the same time it satirizes postmodernism. This should not surprise us, since self-reflective irony holds a central position in postmodernism. Not all the absurdism works—a few scenes seem unnecessarily forced—but what does work is bitterly hilarious. Moreover, I liked it that some of its most profound insights are hidden in throwaway lines and non-climactic scenes. Highly recommended for those who don't require car chases in their movies (not that I've got anything against that).
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