Carnage (15)
Certificate:
Dir:
Roman Polanski
Year:
2011
Country:
France/Germany/Poland
Language:
English
Length:
80 mins
Cast:
Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Elvis Polanski
Format:
Digital
Adapted by Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Repulsion, The Pianist) and playwright Yasmina Reza from her own Tony award-winning play The God of Carnage, this new film from the veteran auteur is a brilliantly sustained one-scene comic drama which exposes the hypocrisy, double-thinking and charmlessness of the modern bourgeoisie.
Oscar-winners Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and Oscar nominee John C. Reilly star as two New York couples for whom a nominally amicable wrangle over their children's quarrel turns into an epic, highbrow brawl. All-too-believable dialogue and fired-up, Oscar-friendly performances from all four stars make Carnage a sly and very funny take on marriage, family, taste, success and every other subject that occupies the educated classes.
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