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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[Sherlock Holmez]

This is better than "Inception"....

[Daniel Silver]

dont even compare. not even on the same wavelength

[Cam W]

you guys ever heard of a thing called 'an opinon'?

[XBOXMASTER123456]

You're not supposed to try and look up interpretations necessarily. It won't get you anywhere with a movie like Mulholland Drive. Just watch it and experience it.

[seamac206]

oh, ok. explain to me the point of cinema then.

[TrevJ91]

Wow. Point proven. That's how you can tell a movie sucks...when u have to look up some Ph.D's interpretation on the internet. You're missing the point of cinema, buddy.

[TrevJ91]

Apparently a film can be nonsensical, unorthodox, and tedious as long as your name is David Lynch...or any other artsy fartsy film director. Sometimes shit just needs to make sense, and not be thrown together at the last minute just because your pilot didn't get picked up. Don't get me wrong, I like art films but DAMN!

[John Lovén]

no. but it sure is innovative