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Life During Wartime: Criterion Collection
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln Life During Wartime, independent fiImmaker Todd Solondz expIores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The fiIm functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondz's accIaimed 1998 dark comedy Happiness, its emotionaIIy stunted characters now groping for the possibiIity of change in a post-9/11 worId. Happiness's grim New Jersey setting is transposed to sunny Florida, but the biggest twist is that new actors fill the roIes originated in the earIier fiIm - incIuding ShirIey Henderson , AIlison Janney , and AlIy Sheedy as aIarmingly dissimilar sisters, and Ciarán Hinds hauntingly embodying a reformed pedophiIe. Shot in expressionistic tones by cinematographer extraordinaire Ed Lachman , Solondz's film finds the humor in the tragic and the tragic in the everyday. |
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