Seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior, as Happiness was... Hence, Storytelling is far more appealing.
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Storytelling (2002)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:47
Rotten:42
Average Rating:5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Jan 25, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $850,758
Synopsis: Director Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, HAPPINESS) presents this characteristically bleak and darkly comic drama in two distinct parts. The first story, "Fiction" stars Selma Blair as Vi,... [More]
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Selma Blair, Mark Webber, Leo Fitzpatrick
Director: Todd Solondz
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Reviews for Storytelling
Not a cozy or ingratiating work, but it's challenging, sometimes clever, and always interesting, and those are reasons enough to see it.
01/25/02
Each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature, but in its current incarnation, Storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception.
03/01/02
Provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of Todd Solondz.
02/10/02
An inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength.
02/04/02
Top CriticShrewd but pointless.
02/07/02
The movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating.
06/04/02
Too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondz's social critique, casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries.
02/05/02
A compendium of Solondz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes.
01/25/02
Solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say, but he isn’t talking a talk that appeals to me.
02/19/02
Solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke
02/10/02
While Solondz tries and tries hard, Storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.
09/08/02
Solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike.
01/28/02
It’s a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer’s face and asks to be seen as hip, winking social commentary.
02/04/02
By not averting his eyes, Solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable, the unacceptable, the unmentionable.
02/08/02
Top CriticMade me feel uneasy, even queasy, because [Solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt.
02/08/02
The film is all a little Lit Crit 101, but it's extremely well played and often very funny.
01/24/02
Director Todd Solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies, and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates.
02/24/02
Shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption.
02/07/02
Top CriticFear permeates the whole of Stortelling, Todd Solondz' oftentimes funny, yet ultimately cowardly autocritique.
09/26/01
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