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Further "Carnage"

By December 13, 2011January 12th, 20265 Comments

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I gave Roman Polanski’s latest some con­sid­er­a­tion here dur­ing the New York Film Festival, and I’ve impor­ted a few of my pri­or thoughts, and some new ones, into a prop­er review for MSN Movies. 

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5 Comments

  • jbryant says:
    December 14, 2011 at 1:04 am

    Looks like that link goes to a list of links for oth­er reviews, some of a dif­fer­ent CARNAGE entirely.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    December 14, 2011 at 6:27 am

    That might be a glitch on your browser, JB; from where I sit, the link goes to my review, below which there is a Metacritic list, which does quote from some reviews of a dif­fer­ent “Carnage.” Not quite sure whose issue that is. I’ll look into it…

  • That Fuzzy Bastard says:
    December 14, 2011 at 10:28 am

    Link was­n’t work­ing (for me) when it was first pos­ted, but now is—might have been a delay on MSN’s side.

  • David Ehrenstein says:
    December 14, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Astute obser­va­tions, Glenn. I’ve just been writ­ing about “Carnage” for the book I’m doing on Polanski for Phaidon’s “Masters of Cinema” series. He thrives on con­fined spaces and sharply cal­ib­rated per­form­ances. This is “filmed theat­er” at its best, com­par­able to Hitchcock’s “Rope,” late per­di­od Resnais ( espe­cially “Melo”), Sacha Guitry and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (espe­cially “A Letter To Three Wives”)

  • lipranzer says:
    December 16, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    My co-worker, who is a big theat­er goer and lov­er, thought the play was facile – though he liked the per­form­ances – and I can see his point. Being funny cov­ers a lot of sins, how­ever, and I thought this was very funny. And while after read­ing the play, I wondered how Polanski could make a film out of this, he does know how to do a well-orchestrated cham­ber piece.