Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” finally has a trailer which is sort of weird since we saw the movie almost a month ago now (Kaufman world is always out of order).
The one thing about this almost whimsical trailer (featuring the string compositions of Jon Brion) is that it really downplays the dark and sadder moments of ‘Synecdoche,’ which there are many. It’s certainly not as quirky as Kaufman’s past work (“Adaptation,” “Being John Malkovich,”) but it still pretty funny in between the tears and sometimes in a really twisted way. No matter all the so-so reviews out there (which there are many), audiences still seem super keen on seeing this one which we suppose is a testament to his work. “Synecdoche, New York,” stars Philip Seymour-Hoffman as a dying theater director who attempts to put on his most ambitious play ever – a living, breath work of art that spans 20-some years of his life and watches him intercede with many different woman including his Catherine Keener, his star Michelle Williams, his therapist Hope Davis, his assistant Samantha Morton and another actor Emily Watson, and another assistant Diane Wiest. The film also co-stars a very hilarious Tom Noonan who is starting to his acting stride all of a sudden (he’s also cast as a voice actor of one of the monsters in, “Where The Wild Things Are“). The slow torch song in the trailer, which plays like a mantra and is heard a few time definitely captures the melancholy/lonely tone of much of the film’s much darker and increasingly obtuse second half. The movie hits theaters October 24.