All is not well in the Caden household; Caden is troubled with symptoms of illness while Adele is emotionally distant.
When Adele takes Olive and her close friend, Maria, (JENNIFER JASON LEIGH) to an opening of her art exhibition in Berlin she doesn't want Caden to come along - and she never returns.
Caden, meantime, has been spending time with Hazel, Samantha Morton, who works at the theatre box office and with his leading actress, Claire, (MICHELLE WILLIAMS).
When Caden receives a generous "genius" grant, he decides to present a stage production, in a New York warehouse, inspired by his own life. He casts
non-actor Sammy, (TOM NOONAN) to play himself and Tammy, (EMILY WATSON) to play Hazel. The rehearsals go on forever.
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After his screenplays for BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, Charlie Kaufman turns to direction with this extraordinary film.
The boldness of the concept begins with the title (the Macquarie Dictionary defines 'synecdoche' as" a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special" – so you’ve been warned.
With its decades-long time frame, its multiple characters - DIANNE WIEST makes a relatively late appearance and ends up also acting as Caden – and its surreal concepts - Hazel buys and inhabits a house that is permanently on fire; Olive's diary is constantly updated even though she's far away in Berlin - SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is, on one level brilliant, clever stuff.
It's also so dense, so complex and so downright puzzling that even Kaufman fans may balk at it.
But after two viewings I'm starting to sort it all out.Read moreLess
Synecdoche, New York Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a theatre director attempting to re-enact his life as it is occurring. From the relentless imagination of Charlie Kaufman, writer of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation
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Do you remember how you felt after you first saw Mulholland Drive? You stumbled out of the cinema into a world that seemed quite different from when you left it. The malicious beauty of passing faces. The vivid burr of the streetlights. David Lynch's violent erotic doppelganger dreamscape gave your sense of reality a right good seeing to. Synecdoche, New York is a similarly mind-altering experience.
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I cannot explain this movie, other then it can be interpreted in many ways I'm sure. For me it had said something that I took too heart, by viewing this movie over more than once I'm sure that I would find the message hidden within.
I enjoyed this film a lot and found it too be very well acted and complex, complex movies that make one think is a bonus for me as I love movies that make you think after the camera fades / cuts too black
