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...matter what your ideology, it is an almost impossible dilemma, a lose-lose proposition. And it is the central event in Todd Solondz??s new film “Palindromes.” The man who birthed “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” “Happiness,” and “Storytelling,” hasn’t lost his desire to provoke...
Friday, April 8. Todd Solondz??s Palindromes (U.S., 2004) and Welcome to the Dollhouse (U.S., 1996). Director in person. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $15; students and seniors, $12. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
Also, frequently artists’ original soundtrack work ranks among their worst, like Belle & Sebastian’s soundtrack to Todd Solondz??s “Storytelling,” where the band was cramped by the demands of making music appropriate to the film. Even when a band is dexterous enough to handle that emotional range, it tends to be a bit of a strain on the music. Tell me I’m wrong...
...worldview, and one is left wondering why even indulge them? There is even a sequence in Oxman’s documentary that is a send-up of American Beauty, where Oxman comments over images of the New Jersey suburbs that there is beauty in a lamp post. Here again, Solondz??s can’t help himself and he ridicules American Beauty the tamer, watered-down version of Happiness. As Nonfiction draws to a close, we find out that Scooby has gotten into Princeton, even though he wrote “FUCK YOU” in bubble letters...
...unfortunate result of Solondz??s self-indulgence and revenge tactics is that both sections of the film fall flat and stay on the surface of the issue that is at the heart of his filmmaking: exploitation. Storytelling is a misstep for Solondz, but even on his off days, he is still a more provocative and fascinating filmmaker than any of the hacks Hollywood has to offer. Hopefully his concern with the critical reception of his work rather than the work itself will be flushed out his system. But hope is something we shouldn’t anticipate...