Todd Solondz‘s latest film Life During Wartime, a pseudo-sequel to his 1998 cult hit Happiness, has received it’s first trailer. It comes in the form of an international promo via Allocine. This was one of the last films (of nearly 30) I saw at Toronto International Film Festival and I was pretty burnt out, so I fell asleep during the first half. I’m looking forward to revisiting it, but from what I saw it definitely contained the Solondz we love (or hate). The film stars Shirley Henderson, Michael K. Williams, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Dylan Riley Snyder, Paul Reubens and Ciarán Hinds. Check out the trailer below.
Plot: Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill (Hinds), Trish (Janney) is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn’t be more excited to have Harvey (Lerner), a “normal” father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from prison and the boys finally meet their future stepdad, the family is forced to decide whether to forgive or to forget. Trish’s sister, the virginal, angelic Joy (Henderson), is also haunted by ghosts of lovers past. On leave from her degenerate husband, Allen (Williams), and her job at a New Jersey correctional facility, Joy unwittingly leaves behind a trail of shame and exposed secrets wherever she goes. In one of the film’s most stylized sequences, the image of Joy walking the dark streets of Miami in her nightgown maintains her innocence against a backdrop of self-affliction and desire.
IFC Films has picked up Life During Wartime for a small theatrical release and Video on Demand services this summer.
Are you looking forward to Life During Wartime?