Happiness |
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| Author:
| Solondz, Todd |
| Contribution by:
| Boyle, Charles |
| ISBN: | 978-0-571-19792-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $13.00 |
Book Description:
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A stark, black comedy about the search for love and happiness, Happiness is a deeply ironic film that centres on the emotional and sexual relationships between three sisters and the men in their lives - one of whom discovers that her husband is a paedophile. Award-winning film-maker Todd Solondz charts the interactions of the men and women in the film - as they desperately try to make emotional contact with each other - with the same unremitting glance, and taste for dark humour, that...
More DescriptionA stark, black comedy about the search for love and happiness, Happiness is a deeply ironic film that centres on the emotional and sexual relationships between three sisters and the men in their lives - one of whom discovers that her husband is a paedophile. Award-winning film-maker Todd Solondz charts the interactions of the men and women in the film - as they desperately try to make emotional contact with each other - with the same unremitting glance, and taste for dark humour, that gave his portrait of adolescence in Welcome to the Dollhouse such disturbing power.