Life During Wartime

Michael Zyx MH Claes

Todd SOLONDZ knocks out hypocrisy & madness in US society. Ice-cold Jewish humor, self-mockery & a rare collection of neuropaths. Hold on! == Todd SOLONDZ dézingue l'hypocrisie & la folie de la société américaine. Humour juif décapant, autodérision & 1 rare collection de nevropathes. Accrochez-vous ! La scène avec RAMPLING rafle tout. http://toutestneutral.blogspot.fr/2010/04/life-during-wartime-un-solondz-soft.html

Frankly, Mr. Shankly

A 12-year-old boy with Burroughs' Naked Lunch as his bedside book is the kind of thing you could only see in a Todd Solondz movie. And gotta love Charlotte Rampling.

Fernando Nikolić

Watching Happiness prior to this film sparked a more sentimental relation to the conflicts presented, but Life During Wartime can stand on its own two feet. Having also seen Welcome to the Dollhouse recently, I feel that this film is Solondz' more visually entertaining film, but it's equally strong in its storytelling as the others. Can't wait to check out the rest of his filmography - I am a fan.

Harry Rossi

Another wonderful film from Solondz. One thing I especially appreciated, was that this is probably his most visually interesting film. Like the person below me said, while it is a "sequel" to "Happiness", it works perfectly fine on it's own. The characters and acting are great as always and I love how obviously political the film is. Very fascinating stuff. Another Solondz film I absolutely loved!

Palmat

OMG!!! What a load of rubbish. I enjoyed Happiness a lot and was intrigued by this follow-up upon hearing about it. After seeing it I feel cheated and disappointed. If anything, this movie is a testament to how a film maker should sometimes should leave certain things in the trash instead in realizing them.

MATTEO BITTANTI

"I miss my laserdisc collection". "Well, China is going to take over so all of this will does not matter in the end" "Pedophiles are terrorists". Todd Solondz's bitter-bitter un-follow up to Happiness has some of the best lines of the year. Forgive and forget, people. Forgive and forget.

Natasha Subramaniam

I am not certain if my issue is more with Solondz's films or if it is with the audiences that hysterically laugh and seem to worship them... Finding humor in human suffering makes for interesting material, but I generally find his work (including Life During Wartime) a bit foul and always short of having any kind of depth or meaning.

Christopher R. Smith

A very interesting misfire. There are many excellent individual performances, but they never coalesce into a functional ensemble, just as the film itself never gels into a cohesive whole, as Solondz experiments with some unusual elements, only some of which work. There are some inspired moments of acerbic wit, but this is easily Solondz' weakest film to date - though still definitely worth watching.