Life During Wartime

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!

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.

Louise_Dietrich

For those of you in Chicago, this is going to be playing at the Music Box Theatre in August. I wish it was sooner.

849025

with lines like "why did I kill myself...I should have killed you" and "I'm sorry I said you were shit and I was champagne" this movie could have used quite a bit more paul reubens.