Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Synecdoche, New York (2008) Movie Reviews
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Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan, Robin Weigert

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Rating: R

Running Time: 123 min.

Advisory: for language and some sexual content/nudity

Synopsis: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, N.Y., is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality.

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  • May 22, 2011 08:50 pm

    Amanda said: C

    This movie started out normal and then just kept getting weirder and weirder until all forms of sense and plot were gone. Even though near the end it seemed to drag a bit, mostly because it made very little sense, it was quite entertaining

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