Life During Wartime (STRONG LANGUAGE - ADULT CONTENT)

TheCentralScrutinizer · 20 Aug 09 :: 17:53

Can you make me a copy?

TeeJay · 20 Aug 09 :: 17:54

I think I ordered the UK (= region code 2) version. The US version was twice as expensive.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 20 Aug 09 :: 20:05

Oh well.

justme · 20 Aug 09 :: 21:19

I'm still looking. I'm almost positive it's around here somewhere.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 20 Aug 09 :: 21:28

'Kay.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 01 Sep 09 :: 16:06

The production company has a page for the movie. No stills of Chris of course, everyone else but him, dammit. And go see which rather offbeat headshot they're using of him in the cast listing...

http://www.wercwerkworks.com/projects/lifeduringwartime

TheCentralScrutinizer · 03 Sep 09 :: 22:14

Our first review of the movie. And it's excellent...

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940 … id=31&cs=1

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Sep 09 :: 03:50

Yay! LDW will be playing at Telluride too!

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertai … SA20090903

There was a terrible series of glitches involved in its first screening at Venice, but it's getting really good reviews.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Sep 09 :: 03:55

Why doesn't Todd assemble the cast at either Telluride or Toronto, dammit! I want new pics.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Sep 09 :: 03:57

Or New York? Yeah, it's playing there too. So many opportunities to get Chris's face out there. Where the hell is his publicist?

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Sep 09 :: 20:03

Here's an interview with Todd at Venice and some clips from the movie. No Chris though...

http://www.arte.tv/fr/2831876.html

TeeJay · 06 Sep 09 :: 11:35

Here's a German article that summarizes what four different (German) critics thought about the movie: http://www.moviepilot.de/news/venedig-2 … ndz-103843

And here's a Google translation, so maybe you'll get the gist of it: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl … ndz-103843 Overall, not very positive, I'd say. But then again, I guess no one should expect a carefree, fun movie when you hear the name Todd Solondz...

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 06 Sep 09 :: 20:11

Here's a little review Shell emailed to me (thanks Shell!) from Telluride...

A Matured Solondz

"After Palindromes, I had given up on Todd Solondz," a friend wrote last night from the Telluride Film Festival. "So I went into Life During Wartime thinking that when an artist runs out of ideas he revisits one of his previous successes. I was wrong. Wartime is rich. Yes, he does revisit some of the same characters from Happpiness ('98), but Solondz has matured and become more introspective in the eleven years since.
"This will not be a commercial film by any means. There were many walk-outs this evenings, especially when a boy barely twelve asks his mother (played by Allison Janney) what does a man do to rape a young lad. But it's a challenging work from an artist. Great ensemble work."
When I read this last graph I said to myself, "Yeah, that's certainly one way to put it -- 'challenging.'" A young buy asking his mom what rape amounts to when the predator is a man and the victim is a boy. If there's one thing you know you're going to get with a Solondz film, it's something in the ick realm. But ask an elite film cognoscenti type about Solondz and they'll never blurt this out in so many words. They'll jump off a building or stab themselves with a letter-opener before doing this. For them it's always the fine writing and dramatic richness and admiring acknowledgments of Solondz's perfectionist tendencies, etc. Which is partly why Joe Popcorn ignores their reviews.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 12 Sep 09 :: 20:03

Someone posted that Solondz won Best Screenplay at Venice! Woohoo! That's a first for a movie Chris has been in.

therealshell · 16 Sep 09 :: 01:01

This guy walked out of Life During Wartime

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/09/ … the_to.php

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Sep 09 :: 01:38

Yeah, supposedly there were a lot of walk-outs. Kinda normal for a Solondz movie. I'll read what he wrote in a few minutes. Just finally got home from work.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Sep 09 :: 01:57

I read that guy's review and all the comments. As someone who's always been afraid of Solondz, this is going to be a very interesting movie-going experience for me...

Editsound · 16 Sep 09 :: 04:07

I know what you mean. I liked Welcome to the Dollhouse, but Happiness has been sitting near the top of my netflix queue for more than a year, and I keep moving other things ahead of it. Not sure I want to go though it.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Sep 09 :: 04:12

I might never have seen any of his movies if not for Chris being cast in this one. I must say I'm very curious. As long as it's not as horrific an experience as An American Crime, I think I'll be OK.

justme · 16 Sep 09 :: 17:43

Well, I'll say one thing for "An American Crime": at least the abuse and perversion aren't played for laughs.

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Sep 09 :: 17:51

True. And it was still far more brutal than I expected.

justme · 16 Sep 09 :: 18:09

It WAS! Just ghastly.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Sep 09 :: 19:39

Another person posted on IMDb that they hated the movie. Looks like this one is going to be devisive as hell. Maybe even among us. I'm betting that some of us are going to hate it too.

justme · 16 Sep 09 :: 20:08

Yeah, probably. I do understand that this guy is trying to push our buttons, I get that. It's just that in "Happiness" the children were there when a lot of those issues were being discussed. And the Billy character said lines I didn't think he should've even heard. Thankfully they didn't show scenes of children being victimized, but it was still pretty shocking stuff.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Sep 09 :: 20:14

Which is why Chris didn't end up playing Billy the first time around. Some of the reviews so far say that the Bill/Billy scene in LDW is really good, but not much else in the movie is...

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