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As in Buñuel, no one can seem to leave the location-which all takes place in a weirdly non-geographical Brooklyn apartment-but what starts as a joke (politenessnes dictating unnatural behavior) leads to a remarkably honest and earnest community, nervously yet comfortably resigned to staying together and talking things out, a place where people are free to publicly throw up, couples to fight, marriages to quake, children to be slandered. In a way, all the jokes feel obvious-starting with everyone’s irritation with Waltz’ continual cell-phone calls from work-but the charm of the film resides in unexpected space not of combat but positively of solace that draws these four to each other.
Reilly, who starts as an appeaser and turns into a shit, and on the other, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) to get together, forge battle lines between the couples and start picking at all things outside their home (marriages, children, morals) before predictably but with continuous humor turning on themselves.
The starting point, narrated in single shot during the credits, is a fight between two young boys, but that is a mere excuse for their parents (on one side, Jodie Foster and a born-for-the-part John C. Perversely setting another film in a fantasy New York created in studios and with computers, Roman Polanski, adapting a play by Yasmina Reza into a Brooklyn kammerspiel, turns Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel into a non-fantastic comedic farce of banal bourgeois pettiness.
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