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Solondz has established himself as a consistently engaging and unique filmmaker, as opposed to just one more cookie-cutter conformist director making his movies on the Hollywood assembly line. He is a real writer and filmmaker, agent provocateur, and a force with which to be reckoned.
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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama. 7.4. Rate. 83 Metascore. An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
- 8 Fear, Anxiety & Depression
- 7 Life During Wartime
- 6 Dark Horse
- 5 Palindromes
- 4 Wiener-Dog
- 3 Storytelling
- 2 Welcome to The Dollhouse
- 1 Happiness
Solondz was very unhappy with his first feature film, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, due to the lack of creative control he was given during production. However, the film still holds up as a scathing and funny critique of pretentious art types and their various (un)successes. Solondz himself stars in the film, as an East Village playwright working on ...
2009’s Life During Wartime was a loose sequel to Solondz’s 1998 masterwork,Happiness, with different actors playing the same characters. Just like Happiness, the film revolves around the Jordan sisters and their struggles to find meaning within their very different lives. Whereas some sequels can be dull, watered-down versions of their originals, L...
2011’s Dark Horse tells the story of two equally miserable people who meet at a wedding. Abe, played by Jordan Gelber, is the 35-year-old protagonist who lives with his parents. He is completely clueless with a very small filter, and ends up proposing to the somber Miranda (Selma Blair) within days of meeting her. Although Solondz’s films often fee...
Solondz’s 2004 film Palindromes is perhaps his most bold and technically daring work to date. The film follows the life of awkward thirteen-year-old Aviva, who is played by eight different actors of various ages, races, and genders throughout the film. However, this isn’t even at all the most provocative feature of Palindromes. The film tackles the...
Wiener-Dog sees the triumphant return of Dawn Wiener in this quirky tale of a dachshund puppy’s travels from one owner to the next. The film features Succession star Kieran Culkin, as well as Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Danny DeVito, and various other A-listers. Like all of Solondz’s movies, Wiener-Dog is inevitably a dour black comedy (the dog is g...
2001’sStorytelling is a unique narrative experiment surrounding the themes of angst, frustration, and inner-turmoil. The film is divided into two separate parts, or “stories,” one which follows a college student ready to find inspiration for her writing, and the other which revolves around a struggling would-be documentarian (played by the always-d...
Solondz’s second feature film, Welcome to the Dollhouse, propelled him into the public eye and still remains a cult-classic today. The film follows 12-year-old Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), a very shy yet determined girl, as she navigates life through the hell of middle school. Dawn has since become something of an iconwithin the film community,...
As funny as it is depraved, Happiness is widely regarded as Solondz’s disturbing masterwork. It follows the disparate lives of the three Jordan sisters, one of whom is married in suburbia; another as a cold, esteemed poet, and the third something of a melancholic drifter. All three of the sisters, along with the various people in their lives (frien...
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Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit74%41%Director, Screenwriter70%41%Director, Screenwriter68%48%Director, Screenwriter43%69%Director, WriterDark Horse (2011) 84 mins | 70% 41% Trailer. Black comedy from satirist Todd Solondz (Happiness) starring Selma Blair, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow... Wiener-Dog. 90 mins | 74% 41% Trailer.
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Solondz found great critical acclaim with his second feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), a film about the cruelty of junior high school, parents, adult figures, and suburban life. The film won awards at Sundance, Berlin, and countless other festivals for its cruel realism, bitter humor, and unflinching portrayal of adolescence.
