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...personal interview with The Crimson and a public question and answer session following a screening of his new film at the Harvard Film Archive, Solondz talked about the titular device behind his new film, what he is trying to get across, how TV shaped his sensability, and why director Mike Leigh wants everybody to be his martyrs...
...person, Solondz is stooped and balding with large-framed glasses that magnify his eyes to a bulgingly, distracting level. His slight nervous stutter, nebbish Jewishness, self-mocking, and ingratiating demeanor combine to resemble Woody Allen, an impression mostly confirmed throughout the conversation. Solondz is, in reality, the scion of a middle-class family. He grew up in suburban New Jersey and went to Yale and NYU film school. The only dissonance to the impression of a younger Woody is when an interviewer probes his work and its relationship to his personality; then, he starts resembling an older Woody with...
...Solondz begins his film with the funeral of Dawn Weiner, the protagonist of “Dollhouse,” who has killed herself, because she couldn’t stand the nature of the world. The rest of the film traces the bizarre story of Dawn’s cousin, the palindromically named Aviva, as she wishes for “lots and lots of babies,” has sex with a horny family friend, and is forced into an abortion by her well-meaning mother (“Sea of Love” femme fatale Ellen Barkin...
...Palindromes” goes beyond the bounds of Solondz’s past tales of suburban dystopia, as its narrative sets up, according to Solondz, “a structure of a Jewish liberal secular family and a conservative Christian one; those are such poles apart that to throw into relief the moral dimensions of some of these convictions that we stand by and what it really means...
Aviva “is suspended between the pro-choice family that gives no choice and the pro-life family that kills.” Solondz recognizes that “it’s certainly my most politically charged, I think morally complicated movie that I’ve made...