NYFF: Life During Wartime

If he were the incisive social critic he thinks he is, there’d be a case to be made for Todd Solondz. In the age of Little Miss Sunshine and Juno a healthy dose of savage, dark humor would serve American independent film well in challenging liberal complacency and political correctness—given the infrequent cinematic output of Terry Zwigoff, bitter, parodic, button-pushing misanthropy is rarely represented at the local art house. But Solondz has not helped fill the void. If anything, he precipitated it.  Click here to read all of Michael Joshua Rowin’s review of Life During Wartime.

robbiefreeling posted to Festivals on October 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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