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Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s (“Being John Malkovitch”) directorial debut is a profound, funny, and inevitably surreal love letter to death and its flesh-collapsing reality amid the hopes, fears, and desires of normal people.
The ever-dependable Philip Seymour Hoffman plays community theater director Caden Cotard, whose family life with his wife Adele (Catherine Keener) and 4-year-old daughter in
Schenectady
is falling apart. Nagging health issues eat away at Caden as he uses a McArthur grant to build a sound stage version of Manhattaninside a gigantic warehouse to write and direct a second life version of his pained existence.
Synecdoche (pronounced sin-ec-ta-kee) rhymes with Schenectady and denotes a part of something used to refer to the whole thing, or the other way around.
Kaufman’s high concept narrative is an evocative and empathic way of looking at the inevitability of death, and features a concentrated use of great female actors (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samantha Morton, Emily Watson, Michelle Williams, and Diane Wiest star).
Rated R. 124 mins.
