Palindromes

Name: Palindromes
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy
Released: April 13, 2005
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis

2005

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: April 13, 2005 | Not Rated

Starring: Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis

Summary: Described as a "fable of innocence," his latest film allows Todd Solondz to savor the profound flavor of moral complexity. (Wellspring Media)

Director: Todd Solondz

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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David Sterritt

Like all this adventurous filmmaker's work, it's truly one of a kind. Read full review

Roger Ebert

If the movie is a moral labyrinth, it is paradoxically straightforward and powerful in the moment; each individual story has an authenticity and impact of its own. Read full review

Premiere Glenn Kenny

What could have been Solondz's most complex and challenging film winds up being a bit on the flat side. Still, the life-forms skittering over its surface are fascinating to behold. Read full review

Connie Ogle

Solondz's determinedly removed eye for the graphic and shocking is by now practically a cliche. If Solondz really wants to outrage anyone, he'll have to make a sweet and heartfelt drama. Read full review

Ray Bennett

It's a highly stylized piece of work typical of director Todd Solondz, who renders wildly exaggerated sequences on a topic not generally thought of as a basis for comedy. He leaves it to the viewer to decide if it's insightful whimsy or meaningless drivel. Read full review

Marrit Ingman

You could call this film repugnant and abrasive, and Solondz would probably agree. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

I've never seen anything crazier than Palindromes. You can read that as praise if you're that sort of person, but I don't mean it that way. Read full review

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M.Daye

Feb 4, 2006

Fiendishly bittersweet, Palindromes will have you both laughing at and feeling for the most sensitive of characters.

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RONGIU

Apr 2, 2012

Sorry, translation Italian / English mechanics.

It 'a film emotionally powerful, indeed, very strong. The palindrome Solondziana script leaves the viewer sensoramiche endless possibilities. There are EIGHT actors for the character of AVIVA, but not the number of actors who are interested,Sorry, translation Italian / English mechanics.

It 'a film emotionally powerful, indeed, very strong. The palindrome Solondziana script leaves the viewer sensoramiche endless possibilities. There are EIGHT actors for the character of AVIVA, but not the number of actors who are interested, since the possibility of empathic contact chance to hear "from within, in the making" / people around me; minimizing the risk of confusion un'incidentale. For this reason, Palindromes goes "observed". So I understand.

All of us, I think, if we look at our life, its most significant events, we try to draw, memory after memory, an emotional map. Inevitably the contents of this map contains words that express feelings, engaging, such as desire, friendship, love, passion, possession, nausea, joy, anger, enthusiasm, positivity, nervousness, impatience, disappointment, anger, revenge, despair, hatred / and so on. Palindromes is all about.

Palindrome, is the unchanging part of us, like it or not. And 'This is the border, this is the extreme boundary, whether genetic, psychological wish that each of us must face in order to learn to accept it. But, everything in us that is blank, inert, may undergo changes, albeit small? The films of Todd Solondz, "guts" of society, its conventions and beliefs, and does so with a director and a screenplay that follow a chromatic scale psychological changes, nuanced and saturations.
The viewer, the task of "tuning" not at all simple.

Luckiness!… Expand

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