LIFE DURING WARTIME

Starts Friday, September 17th

Don't miss our special HAPPINESS/LIFE DURING WARTIME double feature on Saturday, September 18th! See our Special Events page for more details.

PLUS! Sunday, September 19th screening at 4:00 p.m. co-presented by the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival. This screening is also open to the general public.

"A PITCH PERFECT CAST ... One of the year's best films." - Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE

"HILARIOUS ... Ferociously funny." - Dennis Dermody, PAPER MAGAZINE

"NYT CRITICS PICK! APPALLINGLY FUNNY. Should you laugh or cry? Nearly every scene in LIFE DURING WARTIME seems to pose this question." - A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

"This might be some kind of goddamned masterpiece ... a squirmy mix of grotesquerie and humanism, stylized camp and acid realism." - David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Revisiting the characters of his acclaimed, controversial 1998 indie hit HAPPINESS— but with a completely new cast (an amazing ensemble including Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, Paul Reubens, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ally Sheedy, Charlotte Rampling, and Ciarán Hinds)— Todd Solondz’s (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Palindromes) latest dark comedy catches up with the Jordan sisters ten years after a series of shocking revelations shattered their lives. They’ve moved on—“the past is the past… we live in Florida now,” Helen insists—but the family is still haunted, figuratively and otherwise, as they search for happiness in a world that often seems reflected through a fun-house mirror (one containing more than a few cracks, of course).
Hilarious and tragic, outrageous and poignant, LIFE DURING WARTIME takes an audacious, unexpectedly resonant look at the boundaries of forgiveness, family and love.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/life-during-wartime-2

Read an interview with writer/director TODD SOLONDZ:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/film/2010-07-21/todd-solondz-life...