Life is looking pretty bleak for theater director Caden Cotard. While struggling with his work, and the women in his life, he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
7 July 1969, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
15 October 1972, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
23 March 1964, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
21 May 1928, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
22 October 1978, North Carolina, USA
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
14 January 2002
21 August 1971, Newbury, Massachusetts, USA
12 April 1951, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
15 April 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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14 January 1967, Islington, London, England, UK
27 November 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 September 1950, New York City, New York, USA
14 November 1968, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
28 September 1965, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA
13 December 1955, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
4 February 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
May 16, 2016
The movie is ungainly, but to appreciate it one has to swallow the whole purple pill. As inconsistent as it is, it's still more album than mix tape.
November 21, 2008
A surreal exploration of art, love and death, it has the Fellini-esque feel of some lost European cinematic masterpiece that reaches far past the normal boundaries of drama and into the very essence of existence.
November 14, 2008
The more you ruminate on Synecdoche, New York, the more resonance you find in it.
May 15, 2009
Somehow, because it resists unlocking, it feels more serious, troubling, significant. It's as funny as it's depressing. It's as brilliant as it is baffling.
November 13, 2008
It's a strange trip, to be sure, but a worthwhile one for those willing to take it.
October 27, 2010
The power and tragedy of the love story, or hell, the life story of Caden Cotard will become a part of you, because it is your story, and his story is yours, and back and forth and so on and on because 'everyone's everyone'.
October 20, 2010
Art is a dream through which some seek to rise above the mundane. "Synecdoche" is the nightmare of succumbing further to the mundane via art. What could be inaccessible is instead gloriously indispensable - a confounding & combative, but great, film.
March 24, 2011
An important and intriguing film that must be seen to be believed.
March 06, 2015
Brilliantly imagined and perfectly performed, Synecdoche, New York is so heartbroken and strange that it can be compared only to other Charlie Kaufman films.
June 12, 2010
The line between reality and imagination, possibility and pipe-dream, become immaterial, and the film becomes the overflowing contents of a fertile mind spilled out all across the screen.
December 17, 2008
It seems more like an illustration of his script than a full-fledged movie, proving how much he needs a Spike Jonze or a Michel Gondry to realize his surrealistic conceits.
November 10, 2008
I found it bracing, and genuinely in touch with the sweet chaos and ache of life.
