Country: United States of America
Language: English
Year: 2009
Running Time: 96 min
In writer and director Todd Solondz’s part sequel/part variation on his acclaimed film HAPPINESS, three sisters and the people they love struggle to find their places in an unpredictable and volatile world where the past haunts the present and imperils the future. The question of forgiveness and its limits threads throughout a series of intersecting love stories, offering clarity and, perhaps, alternatives to the comforts of forgetting.
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Director
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Todd Solondz
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Writer
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Todd Solondz
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Producer
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Christine Kunewa Walker
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Producer
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Derrick Tseng
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Executive Producer
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Elizabeth Redleaf
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Director of Photography
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Ed Lachman
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Editor
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Kevin Messman
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Production Designer
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Roshelle Berliner
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Costume Designer
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Catherine George
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Music Supervisor
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Doug Bernheim
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Executive Producer
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Mike S. Ryan
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Casting Director
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Gayle Keller
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Production Company
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Werc Werk Works
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Shirley Henderson
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Ciarán Hinds
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Allison Janney
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Michael Lerner
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Chris Marquette
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Rich Pecci
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Charlotte Rampling
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Paul Reubens
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Ally Sheedy
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Dylan Riley Snyder
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Renée Taylor
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Michael Kenneth Williams
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Best Screenplay - Venice Film Festival, Best Actress - Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Todd Solondz was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in the suburbs. In 1996 WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, a feature he produced, wrote, and directed, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the CICAE Award at the Berlin Film Festival, an Independent Spirit Award and a special citation from the National Board of Review. In 1998 HAPPINESS, which he wrote and directed, won the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. It was also honored by the National Board of Review with an award for Best Acting Ensemble. His next film, STORYTELLING, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and was named one of the '10 best films of the year' by The New York Times. The Los Angeles Times called it "a virtuoso work in every aspect." PALINDROMES premiered in competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, as well as at that year's Telluride, New York and Toronto Film Festivals. Solondz's latest film, LIFE DURING WARTIME, was selected in Competition at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.
2009 LIFE DURING WARTIME
2004 PALINDROMES
2001 STORYTELLING
1998 HAPPINESS
1995 WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
Daily Mirror - UK
23-Apr-2010
Author: Dave Edwards
Neuroses, loneliness, sexual longing plus a side order of child abuse; it can only be a Todd Solondz movie, with the leftfield director delivering a semi-sequel to his break-out hit, Happiness. Once again, here's a film that'll make you laugh out loud -- and then make you want to wash your hands.
Chicago Tribune
22-Jul-2010
Author: Alexis L. Loinaz
"Just a little déjà vu"—that's how Joy describes a dinner she's having with her pervy boyfriend at the beginning of the movie. But it also perfectly describes Solondz's darkly funny homecoming for "Wartime," in which he revisits the depraved themes of "Happiness" with the same degree of deadpan humor and—yes—sympathy.