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Let's Put on a Show!(Synecdoche, New York)(Movie review)

The New Yorker

| November 03, 2008 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The hero of "Synecdoche, New York" is a theatre director named Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He runs a successful troupe in Schenectady--so successful that he receives an award from the MacArthur Foundation, giving him carte blanche to unleash his genius at will. This is a rare palliative for Caden, the rest of whose existence is a rash of displeasure and doom. His wife, Adele (Catherine Keener), is a painter of canvases so minuscule that viewers must wear magnifying spectacles to see them. She is also a top-class moper, sprawling across the couch when they go to counselling. "Can I say something awful?" she asks the therapist, a blonde of terrifying perkiness ...

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