Todd Solondz (born October 15th 1959 with Newark in the New Jersey) is a Réalisateur and American Scénariste .
Biography
Realizer liking over all the controversy, it makes known himself general public in 1995 by Bienvenue in the awkward age , chronicle sarcastic on the discovery of the love by a teenager (who will gain the price of the jury with Sundance and Deauville).
Majority of its films unrolls in New Jersey (State whose Solondz is native), during provincial of New York he likes to make fun for the ridiculous one of his lower middle class.
C' is in this State that the history of sound greater success develops, Happiness , which depicts the cross destinies characters of the middle class American as unspecified as pathetic among which a frustrated single person, a pervert on the telephone and a middle-class woman good smart good kind but whose husband will prove to be a paedophile. This film with the disturbing topics will be worth to him the price of Criticism with Cannes and a recognition of the independent cinema in general.
Its following films will have also topics aiming at shocking, as the history of a 12 year old girl who seeks at all costs to be pregnant ( Palindromes ). Solondz prepares the continuation of Happiness .
Catalog of films
- Schatt' S Last Shot (1985)
- Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989)
- Welcome in the awkward age , alias Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
- Happiness (1998)
- Storytelling (2001)
- Palindromes (2004)
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