I think its an incredibly looking film that feels like its trying to tell me something very, VERY important but i can't figure out what it is.
I love the story and journey of the film, its a very good statement on life and death but it feels like im missing SOMETHING AND IM NOT CRAZY.
Synecdoche, New York
Life is bigger, smaller, and stranger than you imagine.
Rating
3.0 (2)
Release Date
10/24/2008Runtime
124 minsGenres
Overview
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
How It Feels
Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.
A dizzying descent into the mind of an artist consumed by ambition and existential dread, where the boundaries between art and life dissolve into surreal, increasingly claustrophobic confusion. Watching it feels like being trapped inside someone else's anxious, spiraling thoughts.
Mood
MelancholicDread-soakedContemplativeUnsettling
Themes
IdentityArt and creationLoveMortalityIsolation
Tone
Operatic
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
PainterlyFormalistDesaturated
Structure
Nonlinear
Heads up
Suicide and self-harmSexual content
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Caden Cotard
Samantha Morton
Hazel
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Maria
Michelle Williams
Claire Keen
Catherine Keener
Adele Lack
Emily Watson
Tammy
Tom Noonan
Sammy Barnathan
Sadie Goldstein
Olive (4 years old)
Hope Davis
Madeleine Gravis
Dianne Wiest
Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Stanley Krajewski
Actor as Caden
Kristen Bush
Actress Playing Claire
Reviews
Hazel being the actress who played Alpha on the Walking Dead really messed with me the whole time. Every time she spoke, all I could hear was her saying "Give me back my daugh-a-ter."
I can see why people love this, but it's a little MUCH. It's cool how it follows such a long period of time and the evolution of these relationships, and everything with the play starts to pay off in the back half, but it's just... I hate to call something pretentious, but if there was a time, this is it.
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