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SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
FRIDAY 27 MARCH
9PM
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£6 / £5.50
BOOK ONLINE
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Synecdoche, New York covers one playwright's determination to create the ultimate autobiography.
New York playwright Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) struggles to maintain a successful life as a remarkable playwright and family man. Caden spends his time creating stage reincarnations of famous plays, but when Caden suspects that he might be dying, the playwright finds the determination to create a play about his own life. Over the course of multiple decades, he battles with the ups and downs of creating a play that delivers everything but an ending.
It takes a great film to thoroughly examine the nature of life itself, and Charlie Kaufman's remarkable Synecdoche, New York lives up to the task. A movie cannot achieve greatness from existentialism alone and Kaufman's terrific screenplay transports us into a quirky and surreal journey unlike any other recent film.
The living and the dead collide in a world that maintains a pulse of its own. Despite these oddities Kaufman's masterful tendency to embrace the absurd rests as a key attribute in the writer's directorial debut.
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US / 2008 / 124mins / Director: Charlie Kaufman / Cert: 15 / Revolver Entertainment
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