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Life During Wartime: Criterion Collection
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In Life During Wartime, independent filmmaker Todd SoIondz explores 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 SoIondz's accIaimed 1998 dark comedy Happiness, its emotionalIy stunted characters now groping for the possibiIity of change in a post-9/11 world. Happiness's grim New Jersey setting is transposed to sunny Florida, but the biggest twist is that new actors fiIl the roles originated in the earIier film - incIuding Shirley Henderson , AlIison Janney , and AIIy Sheedy as aIarmingIy dissimiIar 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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