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CARNAGE: Directed by Roman Polanski.
Screenplay by Polanski and Yasmina Reza,
based on the play God of Carnage by Reza.
Cinematography, Pawel Edelman. Editor,
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Starring Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie
Foster and John C. Reilly. Sony Pictures
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f you’ve seen your fi ll of obnoxious-
rich-white-people movies for the
month, year, decade, eon, you may want
to take a pass on Carnage. The posters bill
the fi lm as “a new comedy of no manners,”
but the laughs are fewer than that tagline
might suggest. Whatever subtleties existed
in Yasmina Reza’s award-winning play God
of Carnage — which she adapted for the
screen with director Roman Polanski — are
obscured in Carnage, which feels like an
anthropological dip into a section of culture
you’d prefer to scrub from your hands.
Two couples, the Longstreets and the
Cowans, are having a civilized afternoon
meeting as the fi lm opens. Their children
brought them together: Young Zachary Cowan
smacked Ethan Longstreet with a stick. The
altercation plays neatly behind the credits,
emphasizing how what actually happened
between the kids is far simpler, and less
relevant to the fi lm, than what subsequently
takes place among their parents. Graciously
bored Nancy Cowan (Kate Winslet) and cell-
phone junkie Alan Cowan (Christoph Waltz)
drop by the absurdly spacious and well-
appointed Brooklyn apartment of Penelope
Longstreet (Jodie Foster) and Michael
Longstreet (John C. Reilly) for a discussion. It
should be brief. It is not.
The Cowans’ several attempts to
leave the Longstreets’ home feel forced,
but what occurs between those attempts
veers between enjoyably nasty farce and
tiresome familiarity. It isn’t long before
the veneer wears off the uptight Cowans
(he’s a lawyer, she’s an investment broker)
and the faux-zen calm fades from the
Longstreets’ faces (he sells hardware, she
works part time in a bookstore).
These couples are by turns churlish,
calming, destructive and laughable, but
the actors rely heavily on one note apiece:
Reilly is blustery, Winslet elegantly grows
disheveled, Foster remains overwrought
in her misplaced passions and Waltz
displays his usual creepy decorum. As the
barbs, the ugliness and the weak gestures
toward conciliation trade hands, the four
characters come off like four facets of the
same self-absorbed jackass.
The dialogue supports the notion that
the couples live differently — when Nancy
vomits on Penelope’s art books, she offers
to replace them, something Pen deems
impossible — but there’s nothing worn
or stretched about the Longstreets, from
clothing to couch cushions. The details
meant to defi ne the characters are slippery
and imprecise. So Alan’s always on the
phone. So Penelope can’t see her privilege
through her bleeding heart. These are
types, not characters, and the specifi cs are
blurry even before the bottle of Scotch
makes its appearance (it takes very little
time for these four to get a good afternoon
drunk going).
Carnage can’t quite step out of its
theatrical past. The blocking is stagey
and overdrawn, and even as the single
location works to create a sense of stifl ing
airlessness, the fi lm collapses into itself,
a puddle of loathing that, a few laughs
notwithstanding, seems smugly satisfi ed
to sit back and point at what selfi sh,
narcissistic cretins these ostensibly well-
meaning people are — over and over
again. Once the tone hits a feverish pitch it
stays there, wearing out its welcome like a
horrid houseguest.
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Fri. - Sat.(1155 210) 420 645 920
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