Storytelling (2001) ****

I saw Todd Solondz's Storytelling (2001) when it premiered in the States (in its censored version, avec red rectangle). The last time I watched the film was in 2005. It's even better and funnier than I remembered. A picture that could never get made again. The climate of films, even independent ones, is vastly different than it was 23 years ago (and Todd's films have always been transgressive). 

Storytelling is an intentionally button-pushing movie, but one imbued with such brutal honesty—and so dryly and darkly hilarious and entertaining—that, even when it's being cynical, it never feels like Solondz is simply out to troll his audience. The director has the uncanny knack for making his audience hate and love his characters in equal measure.

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