Synecdoche New York

from charlie kaufman comes a visual and philosophic adventure synecdoche new york as he did with his groundbreaking scripts for being john malkovich adaptation and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind kaufman twists and subverts form and language as he delves into the mind of a man who obsessed with his own mortality sets out to construct a massive artistic enterprise that could give some meaning to his life theater director caden cotard philip seymour hoffman is mounting a new play his life catering to suburban blue hairs at the local regional theater in schenectady new york is looking bleak his wife adele catherine keener has left him to pursue her painting in berlin taking their young daughter olive with her his therapist madeleine gravis hope davis is better at plugging her best seller than she is at counseling him a new relationship with the alluringly candid hazel samantha morton has prematurely run aground and a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions one by one worried about the transience of his life he leaves his home behind he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in new york city hoping to create a work of brutal honesty he directs them in a celebration of the mundane instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside the years rapidly fold into each other and caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of caden s own deteriorating reality