The Village Voice, April 13th, 2005
PALINDROMES
Written and directedbyTodd Solondz
Wellspring
OpensApril 13, Angelika
ABORT, RETRY, FAIL
Dr. Awkward: Solondz's universe remains static and schematic, backward and forward
Somewhere over the rainbow and someplace beyond sarcasm lies the arid, forbidding world of Todd Solondz. Actually, "world" is a misnomer. Solondz-land, usually suburban New Jersey, is more like a nonexistent comfort zone. Palindromes, which opens with a Jewish prayer for the dead, is consecrated "in loving memory of Dawn Wiener," the hapless heroine of Solondz's 1995 Welcome to the Dollhouse and perhaps his...
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