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Shortly after Caden and Hazel finally get together, Hazel dies of smoke inhalation in her constantly burning house.Īs he pushes against the limits of his personal and professional relationships, Caden lets an actress take over his role as director and takes on her previous role as Ellen, Adele's custodian. Sammy's interest in Hazel sparks a revival of Caden's relationship with her, leading Sammy to commit suicide. For instance, Sammy Barnathan is cast in the role of Caden in the play after Sammy reveals that he has been obsessively following Caden for 20 years, while Sammy's lookalike is cast as Sammy.
Caden buries himself ever deeper into his magnum opus, blurring the line between reality and the world of the play by populating the cast and crew with doppelgängers. Meanwhile, an unknown condition is systematically shutting down his autonomic nervous system.Īs the years rapidly pass, the continually expanding warehouse is isolated from the deterioration of the city outside. Their relationship fails, and he continues his awkward relationship with Hazel, who is now married with children and working as his assistant. After a failed attempt at a fling with Hazel (the woman who works in the box office), he marries Claire, an actress in his cast, and has a daughter with her. He is traumatized as he discovers Adele has become a celebrated painter in Berlin and Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend Maria. As the mockup inside the warehouse grows increasingly mimetic of the city outside, Caden continues to seek solutions to his personal crises. Gathering an ensemble cast into an enormous warehouse in Manhattan's Theater District, he directs a celebration of the mundane, instructing the cast to live out their constructed lives. He determines to use it to create an artistic piece of brutal realism and honesty, into which he can pour his whole self. He hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her.Īfter the success of his production of Death of a Salesman, Caden unexpectedly receives a MacArthur Fellowship, giving him the financial means to pursue his artistic interests. He suffers from numerous physical ailments and has been growing increasingly alienated from his artist wife, Adele. Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and has since appeared in multiple polls of the greatest films of the 21st century. The story and themes of Synecdoche, New York polarized critics: some called it pretentious or self-indulgent, but others declared it a masterpiece, with Roger Ebert ranking it as the decade's best. on October 24, 2008, and was a commercial failure on its initial release. It had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the United States distribution rights, paying no money but agreeing to give the film's backers a portion of the revenues. The film premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008.
The film's title is a play on Schenectady, New York, where much of the film is set, and the concept of synecdoche, wherein a part of something represents the whole or vice versa. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an increasingly elaborate stage production and whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. Synecdoche, New York ( / s ɪ ˈ n ɛ k d ə k i/ sin- EK-də-kee) is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut.
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