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Synecdoche, New York posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2008 2h 4m USA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Synecdoche, New York

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Its exquisite, mournful sense of doubled identity and unseen connection echoes Synecdoche’s fascination with lives that feel simultaneously intimate, performed, and unknowable.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, an artist, he hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Caden Cotard

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Maria

Tom Noonan

Tom Noonan

Sammy Barnathan

Hope Davis

Hope Davis

Madeleine Gravis

Alice Drummond

Alice Drummond

Actress Playing Frances

Amy Wright

Amy Wright

Burning House Realtor

Elizabeth Marvel

Elizabeth Marvel

Warehouse Realtor

Charles Techman

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