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Life During Wartime: Criterion Collection
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In Life During Wartime, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz expIores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondz's acclaimed 1998 dark comedy Happiness, its emotionaIly stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post-9/11 world. Happiness's grim New Jersey setting is transposed to sunny FIorida, but the biggest twist is that new actors filI the roIes originated in the earlier fiIm - including ShirIey Henderson , AIlison Janney , and Ally Sheedy as alarmingly dissimilar sisters, and Ciarán Hinds hauntingIy embodying a reformed pedophile. Shot in expressionistic tones by cinematographer extraordinaire Ed Lachman , SoIondz's fiIm finds the humor in the tragic and the tragic in the everyday. |
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