SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK : Official Trailer -- HD

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. His lingering attachments to both Adele and Hazel are causing him to helplessly drive his new marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy and Tammy, the actors hired to play Caden and Hazel, are making it difficult for the real Caden to revive his relationship with the real Hazel. The textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.

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[noddis911]

It's Ebert's top film of the decade. THE MOTHERFUCKIN EBERT. Some I came to check it out and now I'm completely mindfucked. FUCKING EBERT, I trust Roger for everything in movies and the BEASTLY EBERT led me here and now I'm intrigued and fucking confused. FUCK YOU EBERT. Why is your fucking name EBERT? FUCK, I was only looking up an article about the Hurt Locker and how it is EBERT's second best film of the decade, so I look at his first and its this...EBERT YOU FUCKED ME UP. FUCKING EBERT.

[fabittyfab]

I don't get all of it. It can seem inaccessible at points but what I did get from it made it worth watching, and rewatching and watching again in 6 months. I think it's the type of movie to grow on you, as you grow. Pretty amazing.

[FuckYeahPatMorris]

The fuck does any of this have to do with Schenectady?

[holzspatel]

more than a masterpiece

[nazimrajani1]

I breathe ur name in every exhalation!

Thats such a fucking good line

[notthere83]

@noddis911 hurt locker is number two? interesting. all i heard about that so far is that it's supposed to be an ode to american exceptionalism. if that was really the case, i wonder how somebody who could have "synecdoche" as his number 1 enjoy it that much...

[noddis911]

@XxDavo93xX Please...I'm not a homosexual...

[XxDavo93xX]

@noddis911 Shut up you sound like a 12 year old

[ntgufe]

@noddis911 oh man, I loved that

[KyUHLz]

@sageyash Ive never seen it but from the trailer it looks pretty fucking depressing. but i a good way, you know? like youre not the only depressed one.