It's Bleak and Bombastic... And Those Are Its Good Points

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At home with his artist wife, Adele (Catherine Keener), the relationship is fraught with unspoken tension, which comes to a head when Adele lams it to Berlin with their young daughter Olive, and doesn't bother coming back. [Caden]'s life goes on, punctuated by carefully delineated medical ailments, another failed marriage (to Claire), the death of his parents, and a devastating reunion with his grown daughter. But in the process of that, Caden gets an apparently limitless MacArthur genius grant and embarks on the creation of a massive work of theatre, utilizing scores of actors and a massive warehouse in which Caden constructs a portable alternate universe.

"Synecdoche" is a pun. It's a figure of speech in which a part of something stands in for the whole (as in "ivories" for "piano") or the whole stands in for a part (as when police officers are referred to as "the law.")

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It's Bleak and Bombastic... And Those Are Its Good Points

WITH previous screenwriting credits including Being John Malkovich and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Charlie Kaufman is a guy whose themes have never strayed far f...

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