Carnage
Synopsis
A fight between two boys in a park prompts their respective parents to convene in an apartment to discuss the situation. However, what starts as a polite meeting among adults descends into finger-pointing, tantrums and insults. Adapted from the award-winning play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza.
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Awards & Festivals
Venice Film Festival
2011 | Winner: Little Golden Lion
César Awards
2012 | Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
ID Film
Short and sour, Roman Polanski’s return to filmmaking masterfully milks all it can from a scenario that has in its backbone the potential for farce, avoided thanks to at least two great performances and a consistently biting wit.
Michael Pattison
March 03, 2012
Capital New York
A comedy of manners with farcical elements, Carnage manages to be both brutal and exhilarating, sometimes in the same moment.
Sheila O'Malley
September 29, 2011
Polanski’s customarily remarkable visual aesthetic gives the couples’ war of semantics the feel of something brutalizingly physical, ensuring that Carnage’s images, like its words, cut through us like a knife.
Ed Gonzalez
September 29, 2011
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