Palindromes (2004)

Hopelijk wordt dit Solondz' comeback na het ietwat teleurstellende Storytelling.

Laten we hopen op een tweede Happiness; Solondz heeft het talent in ieder geval...

wanneer komt deze nou in de bios eigenlijk?

Het is de vraag of de film hier überhaupt in de bioscoop zal komen. Bovendien is de Amerikaanse releasedatum nog niet bekend.

ik wist zelf niet eens dat ie aan een nieuwe film bezig was.

The still mysterious Palindromes was described recently in an article in The London Free Press as, "[a] Todd Solondz story of a 12-year-old girl determined to get pregnant."

de fillm gaat in première op het Filmfestival van Toronto.

Andere/specifiekere synopsis van het Toronto Film Festival:

Twelve-year-old Aviva, played by multiple actors, wants to be a mom. Determined to get pregnant, she comes very close to success, but in the end is thwarted by her sensible parents. After running away, Aviva finds herself lost in another world, full of strange possibility. Steller cast includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Shayna Levine, Stephen Singer, and Chris Penn.

bron: http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/...

Multiple actors?

Ja dat is ook het deel wat ik niet helemaal begrijp / vreemd vind.

Misschien om "finds herself lost in another world, full of strange possibility" wat meer kracht bij te zetten.

Primeur op MovieMeter, de eerste Palindromes stills!

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

When you create a sympathetic character it’s only natural that your audience will want to identify with him/her. Nobody actually WANTS to relate to someone who is UNsympathetic, because few people see themselves in this light. The curious thing is how sex, age, race, etc. play so limited a part in determining the degree to which a character is sympathetic. Perhaps this is why a sympathetic character is one that all types of people can relate to. When I had made WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, all types of people would say; 'That was me! I was just like that!' (And Dawn Wiener was not even an entirely sympathetic character!) (Needless to say, I heard nobody make the same claim about Bill Maplewood, the paedophile psychiatrist in HAPPINESS, a character whom so many seemed to find 'sympathetic.') So I wondered what would happen if I cast a number of different types of people as one character, a character who is wholly sympathetic. My fear was that it would come across as too much of an intellectual exercise, a show-offy but pointless trick, and alienate the audience. But my hope was that there would be a cumulative effect that would be more emotionally affecting than had there been just one actor: more magic, and less sleight of hand. My story is a sad one, though not without a certain kick of humor. People may wonder--what does this say about the nature of character? or personality? or acting? or identity? My advice to the audience before watching the movie: even if you’re not sure you understand the what or why of it all (and I'm not sure I do), just let yourself go...

Da's nog eens een big mama

Miss Super Size Me

Nieuwe engelstalige synopsis die iets specifieker is over de plot:

12-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a Mom. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

ROGER EBERT:

Todd Solondz's "Palindromes" is a story of messy, sad teenage sexual experiences.

The Solondz film has sharply divided audiences: Some hate it; some think it is the best work yet from the director of "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Happiness." No one seems indifferent. I thought it was brilliant and bold, especially in the way Solondz uses many different actresses to play his heroine, a young girl who in various versions of the story seeks sexual experience, wants to get pregnant, seeks or avoids abortion, runs away, and is involved in the murder of an abortion doctor.

Solondz uses actresses of different sizes, ages and races to play versions of the same character, in a device that makes the film not simply the story of one young woman's experiences, but a meditation on various possible scenarios and how the same personality might respond to them. His use of many actresses makes the material universal. There are no rapes in the film, although the men are singularly unskilled or uncaring; his heroine in all of her manifestations is naive and unprepared for the emotional anguish that sex causes for her.

bron: http://www.suntimes.com/output...

Palindromes beschrijving uit het officiële programma van het Telluride Film Festival:

Todd Solondz has always been a close observer of human passions and frailties, an artist whose palette is one of contradictory acts: of class struggle, sexual ambiguity, everyday desires and ambitions, of hope abandoned or perversely realized. Such themes figure prominently in Solondz’s startling, poetic new film, which explores the circular nature of life, joy, suffering, and death that encompasses the human comedy. With echoes and evocations of Alice In Wonderland and Charles Laughton’s NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, Solondz brings an exorbitant head and heart to the adventuresome plight of Aviva, a young runaway, and the squalid, ecstatic roadside attractions of her singular journey. There simply is no living filmmaker working in this theater: exploring taboo with eyes wide open, and an exemplary tenderness that lends dreams and reality an ineffable, spiritual iridescence. He is a warrior-poet of the first rank. –BW

Kappeuter; het is de bedoeling op deze site dat je discusieert over films...

Niemand houd je tegen gotti.

Laat maar...mijn geniale humor wordt weer niet begrepen...

"The movie is unquestionably uncomfortable and disturbing (and once again Solondz features a pedophile character) but it is laugh-out-loud funny, and so far my favourite movie of the festival. Solondz introduced it as a strange little movie that some may find disturbing and some may find funny. But whatever your reaction, he explains, whether you are disturbed or tickled by it, that’s alright. And that’s what I like about the movie—you can laugh or you can cringe, or like most people in the theatre, you can do both."

".....It’s at once his most depressing and most joyous film to date, and it once again features a beautiful and hip soundtrack similar to Belle & Sebastian’s take on Storytelling. This time, however, we are treated to music by Eytan Mirsky.:"

Volledige review: http://www.cinematoast.ca/movi...

Dit klinkt veelbelovend! Palindromes kan wel eens een perfecte mix zijn tussen Welcome to the Dollhouse en Happiness. Ik zie enorm uit naar deze film.

Ik ook Kappeuter.

Closer1000 heeft hem gezien blijkbaar. Is het echt een topper?

Paradiso Filmed Entertainment heeft de film aangekocht en zal de film in 2005 uitbrengen!

Ik hoop snel de datum te weten.

weet je hem al?

meest veelbelovende film op dit moment (wat mij betreft dan)

Te zien op IFFR:

Vrijdag 4 februari 20.00 uur Venster 2

Zaterdag 5 februari 23.15 uur Pathé 4

Releasedatum van algemene bioscooprelease is helaas nog niet bekend.

Bij Solondz blijf je hopen dat hij weer eens met een kraker als Happiness komt, maar ik ben bang dat dat er voorlopig niet in zit. Natuurlijk kent ook Palindromes zijn momenten met die typische wrange humor (vooral het middenstuk met de familie Sunshine), maar net als bij Storytelling zijn het vooral speldenprikken en geen harde klappen. 3*.

Een paar keer gelachen maar in feite is het een slappe herhaling van Happiness. Het handelsmerk van Solondz: confronterende zwartgallige humor begint voorspelbaar te worden en aan kracht in te boeten. 2,5*