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About this movie. From the writer of Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has ...
- 123 min
Daniel Kasman 07 Jan 2009 2. Life is looking bleak for theater director Caden Cotard—his wife has left him and a strange disease is taking over his body. But after winning a MacArthur Genius Grant, Caden relocates to a giant warehouse and buries himself in a theatrical epic about his own life, set in a life-size replica of NYC.
May 8, 2009 · 1 To really begin to understand Synecdoche, New York you need to know that it started life as a genre film. "Originally, Sony talked to Spike Jonze and me about doing a horror movie," says Kaufman ...
Synecdoche, New York tells the incredible story of one man's seemingly insane mission to create a miniature version of New York -- all under the roof of an enormous rented warehouse. In this hilarious tale, where nothing is what it seems, will our hero Caden realise his creative ambition or be lost forever in the surreal world of his own making?
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard, a struggling theatre director trying to remain optimistic and creative in spite of his marriage collapsing and finding his life is ultimately meaningless.
Oct 24, 2008 · Synecdoche, New York marked the directorial debut of iconoclastic, cerebral screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Caden Cotard, an eccentric playwright who lives with artist Adele Lack (Catherine Keener) and their daughter Olive in Schenectady, upstate New York.
May 22, 2008 · May 22, 2008 9:00pm. Cannes, In Competition. CANNES — Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first film as a director, “Synecdoche, New York,” will mesmerize some and mystify others ...
