Life During Wartime

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Dave S With Life During Wartime, Todd Solondz again proves that he is probably the most divisive filmmaker working today. A follow-up to the characters he introduced ten years earlier in Happiness, it follows the miserable lives of three sisters, Joy (Shirley Henderson), Trish (Allison Janney), and Helen (Ally Sheedy) and the delusional characters who orbit their misery. Solondz manages to pull some very dark humor from mental illness, pedophilia, prescription drugs, depression, suicide, narcissism, nihilism and a host of other bleak subjects and manages to do it with some stylish panache. Of course, it's perfectly understandable that many will find the entire thing incredibly distasteful, hence the divisiveness. Those unfamiliar with Solondz will know within a matter of minutes what their feelings are about the film, so if you don't like the first scene you'll probably hate the whole thing…and vice versa. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/16/23 Full Review cinephile f I absolutely love Todd Soldonz because he will work with subject matter that other directors will not (I particularly love Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling, Palindromes and Weiner Dog) but I wasn't really that impressed with film. I love Happiness but this was just sort of meh. I want to see all of his films so if you are a fan like me, it's worth watching but I would have preferred a completely original story. I don't know why the original needed revisiting. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Christopher B Most certainly a refined taste, Todd Solondz is a very unique and gifted Director whose films you will love or hate. I thought it was quite good and was filmed beautifully using the Red One Digital Camera which delivers a stunning image quality on the Blu-ray version. The film itself is the story of several unhappy and deeply wounded people who all have their own ways to deal with their problems, both good and sometimes fatal. Recommended if you can handle complex issues with real world results, not a happy ending where everyone lives happily ever after, or for that matter, lives. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/25/22 Full Review dominique w Other than a handful of sequences, "Life During Wartime" lacks the requisite focus to bring the concepts and characters of the far-superior "Happiness" in an interesting new direction. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Very strange movie . Very dark . Very indie . All mixed together it was in the middle of not very good and decent 2.9 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/30/20 Full Review william d After the seriousness of Palindromes Solondz returns to his wonderfully warped sense of humor with this excellent film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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