He determines to use it to create an artistic piece of brutal realism and honesty, into which he can pour his whole self. He hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her.Īfter the success of his production of Death of a Salesman, Caden unexpectedly receives a MacArthur Fellowship, giving him the financial means to pursue his artistic interests. He suffers from numerous physical ailments and has been growing increasingly alienated from his artist wife, Adele. Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The story and themes of Synecdoche, New York drew polarized response from critics: some called it pretentious or self-indulgent, but others declared it a masterpiece, with Roger Ebert ranking it as the decade's best. on October 24, 2008, and was a commercial failure on its initial release. It had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the United States distribution rights, paying no money but agreeing to give the film's backers a portion of the revenues. The film premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008. The film's title is a play on Schenectady, New York, where much of the film is set, and the concept of synecdoche, wherein a part of something represents the whole or vice versa. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an increasingly elaborate stage production and whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. Synecdoche, New York (pronounced / s ɪ ˈ n ɛ k d ə k i/ ) is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut.
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