Reviews

There were large chunks of this movie that had me scratching my head as we had actors playing younger and older versions of characters, actors playing characters we have already met and actors playing those actors.

Caden sets out to create the perfect play, the perfect truth of his life.

He wants to make it 'real', so he hires actors to play real life persons and situations and after some years of continuous striving for realism, the set is almost as real as the actual locations and even the actors start to behave like their (real existing) characters (but not in a completely precis...

I'll admit that this film may actually be profound, but it also makes you feel like a side of meat being punched by Rocky Balboa.

[i]Synecdoche, New York[/i], Charlie Kaufman's first movie that he's written AND directed, is beyond me. Maybe it was the couple of alcoholic beverages I had consumed - I had also spiked my large Pepsi with Captain Morgan rum. But gee whiz, I was lost...

Charlie Kaufman's latest cinematic puzzle, his directorial debut, is his most ambitious project to date, much like his central character's play within the play within the play within the film.

Kaufman describes it as a horror movie and that is one way to look at it , but I see it as one of the most well constructed films with layers and layers of material to entertain you.