(2011) dir Todd Solondz w/Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken, Donna Murphy [86 min] “Abe (Gelber) is a tubby underachiever in his 30s who lives with his parents, sleeping in a bedroom full of action figures, movie posters and other emblems of interminable childhood. In other words he is, in the context of recent American cinema, not unusual. But DARK HORSE is a Todd Solondz movie, which means, among other things, that Abe is neither a sweet Apatovian schlub nor a stoner saint. He is, instead, an emblem of loneliness and failure, whose cocoon of self-delusion and misplaced vanity is carefully dismantled by the sharp, remorseless tweezers of Mr. Solondz’s sensibility.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Dark Horse
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(2011) dir Todd Solondz w/Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken, Donna Murphy [86 min]
“Abe (Gelber) is a tubby underachiever in his 30s who lives with his parents, sleeping in a bedroom full of action figures, movie posters and other emblems of interminable childhood. In other words he is, in the context of recent American cinema, not unusual. But DARK HORSE is a Todd Solondz movie, which means, among other things, that Abe is neither a sweet Apatovian schlub nor a stoner saint. He is, instead, an emblem of loneliness and failure, whose cocoon of self-delusion and misplaced vanity is carefully dismantled by the sharp, remorseless tweezers of Mr. Solondz’s sensibility.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times