Theatrical Review of Synecdoche, New York
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csjlong
October 2004
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That's a damned fine review. I hope you didn't scare anybody off by starting with a French theorist.
I was not expecting much from this movie - people I know who saw it in Toronto had little good to say - but I wound up being pleasantly surprised.
It is certainly a mess, and far too precious at times. I think the middle sags rather badly (though this is the case with lots of films - Act 2 is where every writer gets lost in the wilderness, right?) and the film' quirkiness undercuts the potential of genuine emotional impact in some scenes (such as Caden's final scene with his daughter).
But then it picks up quite a head of steam in the final scenes. And once Dianne Weist arrives on the scene and takes over, what seemed coy and inauthentic suddenly becomes quite moving. I think the last 15-20 minutes of "Synecdoche" are as resonant as anything I've seen this year. It's odd how sincerity emerges out of this Rube Goldberg contraption of Kaufmann's but it really stuck with me.
Gangrel00X
October 2003
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I'm just happy I was able to dust off my old Film Theory texts. Who'da thunk they'd come in handy again?
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