" Synecdoche, New York " Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman , USA, 2008 .
eccentric, haunting and visionary parable of existential and creative Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman ), a theater with deep emotional problems of instability and its attempt to encompass the complexity one's emotional life and relationships in a monumental and impossible play.
Opera before Kaufman in the role of director, this film emphasizes and exalts all the virtues and flaws that the author has always brainy poured in previous screenplays (two of them all, " Being John Malkovich" and " Adaptation "), sparing in his classic cliché fusion of the different planes of reality and on the splitting of identity.
The result is lengthy, labyrinthine, discontinuous, and so poetically eccentric as to be amiable to the viewer who is not afraid to go in and let go in the "house of mirrors" endless references and reflections that are here as in every movie.
Like a fractal, our gaze is lost in the life of the director Cotard, you catch a glimpse of his own party and you can see, sometimes, the trick of writing the author's wry and winking game breaking " fourth wall. "
Excellent cast. Wonderful set designs. Directed completely subservient to the writing stage and metatheatrical. Put simply, a gem intended only for the public prepared or ready to experience unusual or diehard fans of Philip Seymour Hoffman (central pivot of the whole film, but not the only notable performer).
Highly recommended to the partisans of "narrative fee.
Opera before Kaufman in the role of director, this film emphasizes and exalts all the virtues and flaws that the author has always brainy poured in previous screenplays (two of them all, " Being John Malkovich" and " Adaptation "), sparing in his classic cliché fusion of the different planes of reality and on the splitting of identity.
The result is lengthy, labyrinthine, discontinuous, and so poetically eccentric as to be amiable to the viewer who is not afraid to go in and let go in the "house of mirrors" endless references and reflections that are here as in every movie.
Like a fractal, our gaze is lost in the life of the director Cotard, you catch a glimpse of his own party and you can see, sometimes, the trick of writing the author's wry and winking game breaking " fourth wall. "
Excellent cast. Wonderful set designs. Directed completely subservient to the writing stage and metatheatrical. Put simply, a gem intended only for the public prepared or ready to experience unusual or diehard fans of Philip Seymour Hoffman (central pivot of the whole film, but not the only notable performer).
Highly recommended to the partisans of "narrative fee.
WARNING: from what I understand, the film was never released in the Italian edition, so if you'd like to see it, you'll have get a copy in the original edition.
Enjoy!
