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Life During Wartime

2010, Movie, 1h 37min

In LIFE DURING WARTIME, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz 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 Solondz’s acclaimed 1998 dark comedy HAPPINESS, its emotionally stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post-9/11 world. HAPPINESS’s grim New Jersey setting is transposed mainly to sunny Florida, but the biggest twist is that new actors fill the roles from the earlier film—including Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, and Ally Sheedy as alarmingly dissimilar sisters, and Ciarán Hinds hauntingly embodying a reformed pedophile. 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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Reviews

Critic Ben Falk

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It's a quirky tale, but the strange vein of humour and good performances pull it through.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Roger Ebert

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...a brilliant filmmaker. He evokes so effectively his own point of view, which is appalling and compulsive.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Marc Savlov

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Weird, yeah, but oh-so-Solondz, and somehow it works, in the disturbing, tragicomic way that is Solondz’s hallmark.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Mia Brygger

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Nye ansigter lægger krop og hjerte til de velkendte figurer fra 'Happiness', som synes helt i tråd med Solondz’ eksperimenterende og noget åbensindede måde at lave film på.

Read full review at Cinemazone

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In "Life During Wartime," the Jordan sisters are back, and their lives are still a mess. Joy's husband Allen is struggling with his compulsion to make obscene phone calls, while Trish has found love with a recently divorced man named Harvey. But when Trish's ex-husband Bill, a convicted child molester, is released from prison, things take a turn for the worse. Bill's attempts to reconnect with his family are met with resistance, and Timmy, Trish's middle child, is particularly struggling to come to terms with his father's past. As the family navigates their way through love, forgiveness, and sexuality, they must also confront the demons of their past and the harsh realities of growing up. With a healthy dose of dark humor and a cast of quirky characters, "Life During Wartime" is a thought-provoking exploration of the human condition.

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