THU JUN 6, 2024 7:30 PM SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK $15.00 (members-only) Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Charlie Kaufman. Moderated by Amy Nicholson. ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’ and ‘Charlie Kaufman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event. This event is near being sold out, but more could be available as carts expire. Please check again in a few minutes.
ABOUT THE FILM: 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 left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden’s own deteriorating reality. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics COUNTRY: USA